Lewis buys 7% Bear Stearns stake
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Billionaire UK investor Joseph Lewis spends $860m buying a 7% stake in struggling US bank Bear Stearns.
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Boston developer John B. Hynes III and the financial services company Morgan Stanley yesterday bought 23 acres of South Boston Waterfront land from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $203.7 million.
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Reclusive billionaire Joseph C. Lewis, who made his fortune trading currencies, has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up the investment bank's sagging stock to become one of its largest shareholders in less than a month.
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BBVA bank, the second-biggest Spanish bank, said it has reached an agreement to buy Texas-based US bank Compass Bancshares for 9.6 billion US dollars (7.4 billion euros).
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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.
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Shareholders of the company approved a $19.5 billion buyout on Tuesday, more than 10 months after the deal was proposed.
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Bear Stearns shares rose 7.7 percent yesterday on speculation that investors including Warren E. Buffett may buy all or part of the company.
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Stockland, Australia&#39;s fourth-biggest property trust, offered to buy General Property Trust for A$7.5 billion ($5.7 billion) in stock in an attempt to foil a rival bid by Lend Lease Corp.
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Boeing Co  said on Monday it would buy up to $7 billion of its own stock, one of the plane-maker's largest repurchase plans on record, but kept its cash dividend unchanged.
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NEW YORK, November 16  - Hollinger Inc (HL1R.BER) has proposed to buy the shares owned by minority shareholders at a price of C$7.
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Shares of MarketWatch Inc. rose nearly 7% after Dow Jones &amp; Co. announced it would buy the parent of financial news site CBS MarketWatch for $519 million in cash.
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Brewer Scottish & Newcastle said Friday it had accepted a 7.8 billion pound takeover bid by Carlsberg of Denmark and Heineken of the Netherlands.
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Bear Stearns Cos shares soared 7.7 percent on Wednesday on a report that several investors, including Warren Buffett, may buy part of the Wall Street investment bank.
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AstraZeneca Plc, the UK&#39;s second biggest drugmaker, bought a 19.9 percent stake in Cambridge Antibody Technology Group Plc, an unprofitable biotechnology company, for 75 million pounds ($139 million).
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Standard Chartered has won a controlling stake in Indonesia&#39;s seventh-largest bank with a bid of $305 million (170 million pounds), gaining
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The French bank offered millions of new shares to investors at a fire-sale price Monday, seeking to replace the more than $7 billion it lost in a trading scandal.
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Dow Chemical Co. DOW.N on Monday  said DuPont Co. DD.N will buy its remaining equity stake in  DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC (DDE), a 50/50 joint venture between  the two companies, for $87 million.