Briefs: Dexia drops Sanpaolo talks
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Dexia said Sunday that it had decided to formally terminate its plans to form an alliance with the Italian bank Sanpaolo IMI. The board of the French-Belgian bank &quot;has noted unanimously that the conditions
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Another bizarro day at the Red Sox spring training site. At 7:30 a.m., Curt Schilling went on his user-friendly radio program to announce that contract extension talks had broken off and he'll be a free agent after the season. Two-and-a-half hours later, owner John W. Henry said Schilling's announcement was news to him, but at lunchtime ...
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BRUSSELS : French-Belgian bank Dexia said that it has decided to terminate its plans to form an alliance with Italian bank Sanpaolo IMI.
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An Italian court dropped a murder trial against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq on the grounds it did not have jurisdiction, removing a thorn from relations between Rome and Washington.
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NEW YORK -- General Electric Co. said Thursday it has abandoned talks with Financial Times publisher Pearson PLC about a possible bid for Dow Jones & Co., removing a potential rival to News Corp.'s $5 billion offer for the financial news publisher.
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Dexia SA, Belgium&#39;s second-largest financial-services company, is in discussions about a potential partnership with Sanpaolo IMI SpA, Italy&#39;s No.
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Shares in Telecom Italia SpA were suspended from trading for two days on Monday, ahead of an expected buyout attempt by the company of its mobile unit Telecom Italia Mobile SpA, or TIM.
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The company talks down a recent inexplicable stock run-up.
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Kobe Bryant&#39;s attorneys abruptly dropped a bid to seal evidence in the Lakers star&#39;s rape case Monday, saying the details would be leaked anyway and that releasing all the documents
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U.S.-based Phelps Dodge Corp. PD.N   abandoned plans to buy up Canada's Inco Ltd. N.TO on Tuesday   due to lack of shareholder support, leaving Brazil's CVRD   VALE5.SA RIO.N as the only suitor for the Canadian nickel   giant.
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After nearly three months of talks, the companies announced Wednesday that they were calling off talks about a three-way partnership
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Verizon Communication Inc.'s wireless partner on Tuesday distanced itself from discussions on a potential bid for Sprint Corp.
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Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources has turned down an offer from Swiss-based Xstrata that valued the company at Aust.
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Dexia, the Belgian financial services firm, and Sanpaolo IMI, the Italian bank, confirmed that they were in discussions about a partnership.
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The Italian governmentâs attempt to privatize the airline Alitalia collapsed after the only remaining bidder pulled out of the auction. The Italian treasury said it halted its attempt to sell its 49.9 percent stake in the airline after a buyout firm, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers, dropped out. The airline called a board meeting for tomorrow to decide what to do next. MatlinPatterson, which is based in New York, was one of 11 bidders that expressed interest when the auction began seven months ago. The bidders gradually dropped out because of what they said were onerous conditions that a buyer would be required to meet.
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General Motors Corp. , Renault SA  and Nissan Motor Co.  on Wednesday said they had broken off talks over a proposed alliance between the three automakers urged by GM's largest individual shareholder.
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Anthony Daniels talks about saying goodbye to C3PO. Plus entertainment news in brief on William Shatner and Sharon Stone.