Enel to Get $2.3 Billion Compensation, Boost Dividend
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Enel SpA, Italy&#39;s biggest utility, will receive 1.9 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in investment compensation from the government and will raise additional cash from asset sales that will be used to boost dividends.
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News Corp  Chairman Rupert Murdoch received a pay raise last fiscal year, boosting his compensation package to $24.3 million, nearly matching the pay of his second in command.
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Enel, an Italian utility, said it had bought a 10 percent stake in Endesa, the Spanish utility, for 4.1 billion euros ($5.4 billion), possibly breaking up an attempt by a German company, E.On, to buy Endesa. Enel, based in Rome, said it had acquired 9.99 percent of Endesa at 39 euros a share, above E.Onâs bid of 38.75 euros and Endesaâs closing price of 38.12 euros. E.On raised its offer for Endesa this month to 41 billion euros ($54.2 billion) and emerged as the leading bidder, ahead of Gas Natural of Spain. It has cleared a number of legal hurdles in a bidding war that has lasted more than a year. Analysts said another bidder, Acciona, also of Spain, might revive its interest in Endesa as a result of Enelâs action.
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Some of Enron Corp's EONPQ.PK former  directors have agreed to a $168 million settlement of a  shareholder lawsuit over the collapse of the once powerful  energy trading company, the lead plaintiff in the case said on  Friday.
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Spain's "El Gordo," the world's biggest  lottery, gave out 2.2 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in Christmas  prizes on Saturday.
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Italian energy group Enel said on Thursday that it had agreed to buy an additional 11.58 percent of Spanish peer Endesa, meaning the Italian company now controls a 21.57-percent stake.
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Vodafone is to hand out Â£6bn to shareholders this year thanks to a doubling of its dividend and an increase in its share buy-back programme.
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Bowing to pressure from an Icos Corp.  shareholder, Eli Lilly and Co.  said on Monday it has increased its offer for the biotechnology company to $2.3 billion from an earlier bid of $2.1 billion.
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The Netherlands, Europe&#39;s third-largest gas producer, agreed to pay 2.78 billion euros ($3.55 billion) to buy the natural gas pipeline stakes of Royal/Dutch Shell Group and Exxon Mobil Corp.
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Some of Enron Corp's EONPQ.PK former  directors have agreed to a $168 million settlement of a  shareholder lawsuit over the collapse of the energy trading  company, the lead plaintiff in the case said on Friday.
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L'amministratore delegato paghera' multa di 3,2 mln di euro
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German energy giant E.ON has raised its takeover offer for Spain's Endesa electricity firm to 35 euros (44.7 dollars) per share from 25.4 euros (32.5 dollars) offered in February, the company said in a statement.
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Diversified manufacturer General Electric Co.  said on Friday it boosted its quarterly dividend by 10 percent and earmarked up to &#36;15 billion for share repurchases over the next three years.
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Greater segment balance should make earnings season kind to energy companies.
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Repsol, Spain's biggest oil firm, said Tuesday it planned to invest 3.2 billion euros (4.7 billion dollars) to double capacity at its refinery in Cartagena in southwestern Spain.
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Enron Corp. has agreed to sell its domestic natural gas pipelines for more than $2 billion after an auction aimed at helping the energy company emerge from one of the most expensive and complicated bankruptcies in history.
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General Electric Co. said Friday that it is raising its quarterly dividend by 10 percent to 22 cents per share, and could buy back up to $15 billion worth of stock over the next three years.