Poles Line Up to Buy Bank Shares
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Poles signed waiting lists Sunday for a chance to buy shares in their largest bank, using a signup system from communist times to impose order on the crush of interested investors.
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The banking company is holding up in a tough market.
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An investment group is expected to  announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water  utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion, a source  familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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MADRID/NEW YORK  - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA , Spain's second-largest bank, agreed to buy Compass Bancshares Inc.  for $9.6 billion, realizing a long-held goal of gaining a solid foothold in fast-growing southern U.S. states.
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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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Komercni banka (KB) (Prague, Czech Republic), bank, will hold a 100% stake in the building society Modra pyramida (MP) (Czech Republic). KB will buy a 10% stake from Ceska pojistovna (Czech Republic) for EUR 24 mil, about CEK 677 mil.
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Markets will closely watch banking shares after Northern Rock was forced to take a loan from the Bank of England.
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Polish consumers rush to sign up for shares in the country's largest bank, scheduled to make its stock market debut next month.
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Chinese bank ICBC, the country's biggest lender, is poised to launch the world's largest share listing in October.
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HSBC  , Europe's biggest bank, said on Monday it had agreed to buy a 51.02 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank , the sixth largest bank in Korea, for about $6.3 billion cash.
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Traders open up their checkbooks and push money into the U.S. markets.
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By Julia Kollewe in London and Renee Bonorchis in Johannesburg. Barclays, the bank that pulled out of South Africa in 1986 after protests during the apartheid era, said yesterday it was in talks to buy a majority
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A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland  will probably on Tuesday make a formal takeover offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , said sources familiar with the matter on Friday.
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WARSAW, Poland Â Poles began voting Sunday in elections pitting the prime minister's nationalists against a pro-business party that wants to bring the country's 900 troops home from Iraq and get more in return for hosting a U.S. missile defense base.
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An investor group led by two  well-known Philadelphia-area executives could seal a deal this  week to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News newspapers  for up to &#36;600 million, a source close to the matter said on  Monday.
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Joining the European Union has proved profitable for sugar farmers in Poland, but this could be about to change.