Loews to buy gas assets from Dominion for $4 bln
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Loews Corp. , a conglomerate, said on Monday it agreed to buy natural gas exploration and production assets in three states from Dominion Resources Inc.  for $4.025 billion in cash to diversify its revenue stream.
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Dominion Resources Inc.  said on Monday it would sell its Mid-Continent natural gas assets to Linn Energy LLC  for $2.05 billion, part of its bid to focus more on its power business.
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RBS is looking to sell Southern Water for around Â£4bn, four years after buying the firm, according to reports.
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Loews Corp. , the conglomerate  run by the Tisch family, reported a nearly six-fold increase in  fourth-quarter profit on Monday, helped by gains at its  insurance and oil drilling units.
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Conglomerate Loews Corp. LTR.N on  Monday said it agreed to buy an 8,000-mile natural gas pipeline  system, from Entergy-Koch LP for $1.14 billion, in a bid to  cash in on the rising U.S. demand for natural gas.
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Bank of America Corp  said on Friday it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for $4 billion, a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australian engineering company Worley Group Ltd. (WOR.AU) has placed shares with institutional investors at A$4.
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Private investment firm Colony Capital LLC has agreed to pay 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) for Libya's European oil company Tamoil and Oilinvest.
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Teck Cominco, a mining company and metals producer, has agreed to buy Aur Resources for 4.1 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash and stock.
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An affiliate of Colony Capital has agreed to buy four properties from Caesars Entertainment Inc. and Harrah&#39;s Entertainment Inc.
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The Canadian government moved forward with plans to sell its C$3.04 billion ($2.36 billion) stake in Petro-Canada, as the oil company filed offering documents with US and Canadian regulators.
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Loews Corp. , the holding company controlled by New York's Tisch family, and XTO Energy Inc. agreed to buy most of Dominion Resources Inc.'s onshore oil and gas properties in separate transactions valued at about $6.5 billion.
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British oil giant Shell announced that its Belgian arm had agreed to sell its stakes in two Belgian gas companies to utility group Suez-Tractebel in deals worth a total of around 380.4 million euros (460 million dollars).
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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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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - The pension fund for Ontario's teachers said on Thursday it will buy four North American marine container terminals from Orient Overseas (International) Ltd.  for $2.4 billion.
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Goldcorp Inc., Canada&#39;s fourth- largest gold producer, has agreed to buy Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. for $1.8 billion in stock, giving Goldcorp its first assets outside of North America, Chief Executive Robert R. McEwen said.
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National Grid Transco, the Britain-based deliverer of energy, announced it has agreed to sell four of its gas distribution networks to consortia in cash deals worth 5.8 billion pounds.