JP Morgan Buys Queen Elizabeth's Broker
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UK brokerage Cazenove effectively gave  up 181 years of independence on Friday when it sealed a joint  venture with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., designed to lift the U.S.  bank's UK presence and give Cazenove a broader reach.
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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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Citigroup agreed to buy Egg Banking, a British online bank, for $1.13 billion, the latest in a series of small deals to expand its retail presence abroad.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Monday kept its offer to buy Dutch bank ABM AMRO at 71.1 billion euros ($97.9 billion) but raised the amount of cash it is offering after having to exclude ABN's U.S. arm from the purchase.
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LONDON: JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co, the ninth ranked underwriter of UK stocks, formed a joint venture with Cazenove Group Plc to improve its access to Britain&#39;s biggest companies.
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM.N plans  to buy a majority stake in the hedge fund Highbridge Capital  Management, the companies said on Monday, a sign that Wall  Street is seeking a bigger role in the rapidly growing  hedge-fund industry.
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LONDON, December 20  - The London Stock Exchange (LSE-GBX) announced today that it has received a purchase offer from the Franco-Belgian stock exchange, Euronext.
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The London Stock Exchange confirmed Saturday it was buying the Borsa Italiana for 1.6 billion euros (2.15 billion dollars) in shares, according to a joint statement.
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Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered plc  is in final talks to buy a 49 percent stake in Indian brokerage UTI Securities, the latest bank to buy into the country's brokerage sector.
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The James River Group, a property and casualty insurer, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group for $575 million in cash.
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Morgan Stanley  said on Monday  it has acquired China's Nan Tung Bank, a deal that would give  the Wall Street giant a coveted onshore commercial banking  license in China ahead of U.S. investment bank rivals.
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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, said it had made an undisclosed offer for the wealth business of ING Securities Bank (France), a unit of Dutch banking giant ING Group.
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Marks and Spencer, the struggling British retailer, began buying back more than one quarter of its shares in the biggest tender offer ever seen in Britain.
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A group led by JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. agreed to buy UK drugmaker Warner Chilcott Plc for 1.62 billion pounds ($3 billion), outbidding two other private equity firms.
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JPMorgan Fleming Asset &amp; Wealth Management on Monday said it plans to buy a majority interest in and enter into a partnership with Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge funds manager, to bolster its presence among hedge funds and
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- The board of UK investment bank Cazenove has approved a plan in which JP Morgan Chase will buy a 50 percent stake in the firm for $180 million, according to a media report Sunday.
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LONDON : Marks and Spencer, the struggling British retailer, began buying back more than one quarter of its shares in the biggest tender offer ever seen in Britain.