Loews to Buy Entergy-Koch Pipeline
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Conglomerate Loews Corp. LTR.N  agreed to buy an 8,000-mile natural gas pipeline system from  Entergy-Koch LP for $1.14 billion on Monday, in a bid to cash  in on rising U.S. demand for natural gas.
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US buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is buying Masonite International (MHM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (MHM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Canadian-based maker of building products, in an all-cash deal worth C$3.1
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US buy-out giant, last night agreed to buy Masonite International, a Canadian door products manufacturer, for about C$3.1bn (US$2.5bn) in cash.
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Enbridge Inc., Canada&#39;s second- largest pipeline company, agreed to buy Shell Gas Transmission LLC for $613 million to gain pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time.
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U.S. bank Wachovia Corp.  on  Thursday said it would buy A.G. Edwards Inc.  for about  $6.8 billion in cash and stock to create the second-largest  retail brokerage in the United States.
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Transocean Inc. , the world's largest offshore driller, said on Monday it would buy smaller rival GlobalSantaFe Corp. , creating a $53 billion company with a presence in ultra-deepwater and deepwater drilling and additional growth from new rigs.
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The Russian natural gas company Gazprom on Tuesday said it would buy one of the country&#39;s top oil companies, a move that would create a state-owned energy juggernaut.
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U.S. bank Wachovia Corp.  on Thursday said it would buy A.G. Edwards Inc.  for about $6.8 billion in cash and stock to create the second-largest retail brokerage in the United States.
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Transocean Inc. , the world's largest offshore driller, said on Monday it would buy GlobalSantaFe Corp.  for about $17 billion in a no-premium deal, adding a fleet of shallow-water drilling rigs to its deepwater equipment.
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Loews Corp  on Monday said it plans to spin off its cigarette unit, Lorillard Inc, which makes Newport, Kent and Maverick cigarettes.
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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall  Street Journal, said it is to buy online news site operator  MarketWatch Inc. to grow the revenues it derives from the  Internet.
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U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co.  has agreed to buy British maker of oilfield services equipment Sondex Plc  for 288.7 million pounds ($583.1 million) in cash, the two companies said on Monday.
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Loews, which has interests in financial services, hotels and watches, said it plans to spin off Lorillard, one of the largest U.S. cigarette makers, into a separate publicly traded company.
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Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts &amp; Co., the world&#39;s biggest buyout firm, agreed to buy Canadian building- products maker Masonite International Corp.
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General Electric Co. GE.N on Monday  said it would buy a fire detection systems business from SPX  Corp. SPW.N for nearly $1.4 billion in cash in a move to  bolster its infrastructure business.
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The recent decision by conglomerate Loews  to spin off its Lorillard tobacco unit could boost its stock by shrinking its total shares outstanding by 20 percent and eliminate much of the remaining tobacco-liability risk, Barron's said on Sunday.
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Enbridge Inc. (ENB) will buy Shell&#39;s Gulf of Mexico natural gas pipelines for $613 million in a move that will make it a major transporter in the huge gas-producing area, Canada&#39;s No.