PHEAA&#39;s board says no to offer of buyout
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The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency board has rejected a $1 billion offer that would have allowed its biggest competitor to run the state&#39;s student-loan agency.
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The board of Spanish energy group Endesa said it &quot;judged favourably&quot; a takeover of the company by German energy rival E.ON, but stopped short of recommending shareholders accept E.ON's 41-billion-euro (53-billion-dollar) offer.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union rejected a US demand to ban government loans to aircraftmaker Airbus SAS, intensifying a dispute between the two trading partners.
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European Union regulators suggested Monday they are not bound by a U.S. decision to allow Oracle Corp. to pursue its &#36;7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. and are continuing to collect data on the deal.
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The Nasdaq stock exchange, which holds a stake in the London Stock Exchange and tendered an offer to takeover the LSE, said that it had no intention of changing the LSE's management if its offer for the exchange lapses.
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The Canadian aluminum maker Alcan has denied a request by a rival, Alcoa, for further talks on Alcoaâs hostile $27.5 billion takeover bid.
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James Crosby, chief executive of HBOS Plc, said yesterday he decided not to bid for Abbey National Plc, HBOS&#39;s largest mortgage-banking rival, because ``cold analysis in the head&#39;&#39; told him not to.
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Leap Wireless International Inc.   said on Sunday its board of directors had rejected an  unsolicited bid from larger rival MetroPCS Communications Inc.  .
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The London Stock Exchange said Monday that it had rejected a fresh takeover proposal from German rival Deutsche Boerse but has agreed to further talks.
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Lawyers for thousands of people who contend that they were harmed by the diet drug combination fen-phen said yesterday that they would reject a comprehensive settlement offer from Wyeth. But the company said there was a "substantial show of interest" in the deal.
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WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--New Zealand Contact Energy&#39;s (CEN.NZ) independent directors Monday recommended that shareholders not accept a takeover offer from Australia&#39;s Origin Energy Ltd.
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PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors said Saturday it will not accept Oracle Corp.&#39;s bid to buy the company for $24 per share, even after 61 percent of the Pleasanton firm&#39;s investors endorsed the offer.
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Oracle has rejected&#160;BEA Systems&#39; proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it &quot;impossibly high&quot; for Oracle or any other company to pay.
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PLEASANTON, California - PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board yesterday rejected Oracle Corp.&#39;s $9.2 billion takeover bid, continuing its resistance after the company&#39;s own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of their stock to Oracle.
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Royal Bank of Scotland  said it was not in talks with Bank of America  regarding an attempt to resolve the purchase of LaSalle Bank, the U.S. arm of ABN AMRO which is a subject of dispute in the proposed RBS buyout of ABN.
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The London Stock Exchange today said it had rejected a Â£1.35 billion takeover approach from German rival Deutsche Boerse. Shares in the LSE have risen 25 per cent in recent weeks as investors anticipated a possible takeover bid.
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Leap Wireless International Inc.  said on Sunday its board of directors had rejected an unsolicited bid from larger rival MetroPCS Communications Inc. .