HBOS eyes property group Quintain: paper
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Britain&#39;s biggest mortgage lender, HBOS  Plc , is in the early stages of planning a 1.2 billion  pound ($2.44 billion) takeover bid for property group Quintain  Estates & Development Plc , The Sunday Times reported.
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HBOS is said to be in talks with potential financial backers over how to fund an Â£8bn takeover bid for Abbey National in a move to break up a takeover plan from Spain&#39;s Banco Santander Central Hispano.
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Winning the rights to broadcast premiere  league football matches will help France Telecom step up its  transformation into an integrated multi-media group, analysts  said on Thursday.
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Banks and insurers pushed European  shares higher on Wednesday, with Britain's HBOS spearheading  the gains on relief it would not be wading into a bidding war  for domestic banking peer Abbey.
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Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and the founders of Australia's Multiplex  have approached the $3 billion construction firm about a possible takeover as it struggles with the troubled Wembley stadium project in London.
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Banking group HBoS has been given access to Abbey National&#39;s books it emerged yesterday as the owner of the Halifax said it would complain to the European Commission about Banco Santander&#39;s bid for Abbey.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- British bank HBOS (UK:HBOS) on Monday was added to Deutsche Bank&#39;s pan-European focus list. It was added &quot;ahead of potential bid for Abbey National (UK:ANL) on basis of very little downside
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Banking group HBOS today stayed silent on claims that its bosses will meet this week to finalise plans for a Â£10bn (â¬14.7bn) bid for Abbey National.
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HBOS has been granted access to sensitive financial information about Abbey National, indicating the seriousness of the UK bank&#39;s intentions towards its rival.
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Euronext, operator of the Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon stock exchanges, would be prepared to move its headquarters to London in its bid to buy the London Stock Exchange, the business daily Handelsblatt reported.
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Multiplex Group, an Australian construction company, may miss out on UK development contracts should Westfield Group&#39;s proposal to buy property developer Chelsfield Plc succeed, Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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HBO, the U.S. cable network owned by  media conglomerate Time Warner Inc., is considering a new  broadband Internet channel that would be available to customers  who also subscribe to its cable television service, the  Financial Times reported on its Web site.
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UK bank HBOS says profits will "comfortably exceed" expectations and announces plans to buy back up to Â£750m of shares.
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Banks and insurers pushed European shares higher on Wednesday, with Britain&#39;s HBOS spearheading the gains on relief it would not be wading into a bidding war for domestic banking peer Abbey.
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LONDON - HBOS says it has decided against bidding for the British mortgage bank Abbey National, clearing the way for an agreed offer from Spain&#39;s Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH).
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Abbey National today looked set for Spanish ownership after banking group HBOS declared it was no longer considering a rival bid. Here are the key dates in the long-running saga over the troubled bankâs future.
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HBOS , Britain's biggest mortgage lender, said profits are on track to rise 4 percent this year but it will take a 180 million pound ($367.7 million) hit on the value of assets due to the credit crunch, which will also hurt margins.