Dow Rumors Inflate Ciba EUROPE MARKETPLACE By Bloomberg
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By Sharon Smyth  Merck, the German pharmaceutical company that failed to buy a rival, Schering, this year, agreed to buy the stake owned by the billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli in Serono to obtain control of the largest biotechnology company in Europe.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) _ At least four New York Stock Exchange traders were fired or suspended this week as federal and exchange regulators prepare to bring charges against them for allegedly
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France and Germany's market watchdogs say they are looking into Citigroup bond trades already under scrutiny in the UK.
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PARIS, Oct 17  - European stock markets could be heading for a patch of rough water with the introduction of new accounting standards, analysts are warning, saying that stock prices could be bounced around and initial public offerings held back.
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A number of bidders approach US exchange Nasdaq to buy its stake in the London Stock Exchange, say reports.
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By Alejandro Bodipo-Memba, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 26--Speculation over the possible sale of Dow Chemical Co. to a group of private equity investors for as much as $54 billion sent the company's stock up 6% close to noon Monday.
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The New York Stock Exchange  has  the means to up its offer for pan-European stock market  Euronext  if needed to thwart rival suitor Deutsche  Boerse (DB1Gn.DE), NYSE chief John Thain was quoted as saying  on Thursday.
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Europe&#39;s main stock markets mainly rose Monday, but Paris shares were hit by news of a merger between utility giants Suez and Gaz de France.
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Europe's year-end rally gathered momentum this week with bid speculation in the banking and retail sectors helping equities reach a fresh 5&frac12;-year high on Friday.
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Yesterday at 3 p.m., these were the top headlines running on Bloomberg's news service:
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Hopes are high that the gains that carried Wall Street and the European equity markets to multi-month highs this week could set the scene for a strong rally into the end of the year on both sides of the Atlantic.
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EURONEXT has made an approach to the London Stock Exchange, increasing the possibility of a bidding war between Paris and Frankfurt for control of Europeâs largest equity market.
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U.S. and European banks including Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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Strange names are starting to appear on the WSE. Hungarian chemical producer BorsodChem entered the Warsaw bourse to get closer to potential partners.
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NEW YORK - Stocks that were moving substantially or trading heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:  NYSE  Dow Jones & Co., up $7.74 at $61.05; News Corp., up 63 cents at $24.26.
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Business & money: Bank endures choppy morning on the stock exchange as speculation intensifies over possible buyers.
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A rumor of a buyout sends TheStreet.com's shares rocketing.