UPDATE 2-BlackRock buys State Street Research for $375 mln
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BlackRock Inc. (BLK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the largest US fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &amp; Management Co.
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  has agreed to be acquired by Tishman Speyer and Lehman Brothers Holdings  for $22.2 billion, including debt, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s Equity Research lowered the price target for Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) to $41 from $44 and said the company&#39;s dispute with former partner Medinol will likely go to trial next year.
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Australian property group Investa agrees to be bought by US investment giant Morgan Stanley for $3.9bn.
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Financial services company State Street Corp. (STT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said quarterly profit fell more than Wall Street had expected as foreign
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Tishman Speyer Properties LP and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. agreed to buy US apartment developer Archstone-Smith Trust for $13.5 billion, expanding their residential assets as rents rise.
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The Blackstone Group had also bid for U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  in the weeks before Archstone agreed to acquired by affiliates of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  and Tishman Speyer for more than $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Thursday.
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy a real estate investor, the Investa Property Group of Australia, for 4.7 billion Australian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash. Including debt, the offer values Australiaâs biggest publicly traded owner of office buildings at 6.6 billion Australian dollars. The bid is subject to an independent expertâs report confirming that the offer is in the best interests of shareholders.
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State Street Corp. , one of the world's largest custody banks for institutional investors, said on Monday it would acquire Investors Financial Services Corp.  for about $4.5 billion in stock.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Big M&amp;A deals kicked off the shortened week as a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland launched a $96 bil bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro  , and Archstone-Smith  , a REIT, agreed to a $22.2 bil buyout by 2 equity groups. RBS&#39; offer for ABN topped Barclays  &#39; earlier $86.6 bil bid, but analysts said ABN&#39;s previous decision to sell LaSalle to Bank of America   clouded the deal.
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Blackstone Group  raised its bid for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $23 billion in cash on Tuesday after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer in the latest round of the fight to control the top U.S. office landlord.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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The Motley Fool - On Monday, Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP - News) announced that it had agreed to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion. The terms of the agreement call for Blackstone to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Equity Office at an 8.5% premium over its closing price on November 17, 2006.
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Blackstone Group  has agreed to  buy 20 percent of chemical maker China National BlueStar  (Group) Corp for up to $600 million, the private equity groups  said on Monday, marking its first major investment in the  fast-growing market.
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BlackRock Inc. BLK.N, one of the  largest U.S. fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will  buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &  Management Co. in the biggest takeover in the asset management  industry this year.
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Blackstone Group  has agreed to buy 20 percent of chemical maker China National BlueStar (Group) Corp for up to $600 million, the private equity groups said on Monday, marking its first major investment in the fast-growing market.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward  its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday  when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares  Inc  for $9.6 billion.