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Infosys Technologies, the outsourcing company, will offer $1.6 billion worth of its shares in the United States, the biggest overseas offering by an Indian company. The 30 million American depository shares, each worth one common share, were priced at $53.30. Infosys, based in Bangalore, had said earlier that it wanted to increase the companyÂs market value in the United States, and qualify for listing on the Nasdaq 100 index.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - Iran: Sanctions alone will not stop Tehran's Islamofascist regime from building a nuclear weapon -- so warns a new European Union report. Why in the world did it take them so long to face up to the obvious?
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Investor's Business Daily - MSCI&#39;s main world stock index rose almost 1% as credit concerns eased and investors returned to buying riskier assets. Stocks in Europe and Japan led the index higher. Chinese stocks hit yet another record high. The index is 6.5% above a week ago but remains 7% below its record high in July, when credit worries hit global financial markets.
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As previously announced, KB Home's past stock option grant practices are  being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The  Department of Justice is also looking into these practices but has  informed KB Home that it is not a target of this investigation.
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British oil firm Cairn Energy has said that the initial public offering of its Indian unit would be priced at 160 rupees per share (2.73 euros, 3.56 dollars) -- at the low end of its price range.
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Dow Jones +0,03%, SP 500 +0,17%, Nasdaq +0,87%
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Business & money: Â· Credit crunch creates Â£210bn backlog of buyouts Â· US sub-prime crisis claims more jobs and firms
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SINGAPORE : The Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) plan to enter into a cross-membership agreement that will allow member securities firms of both exchanges to execute equity transactions in both bourses from fiscal 2005, the
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NYSE Euronext has joined Dutch and British financial authorities in examining trading patterns of ABN Amroâs shares and American depositary receipts just before the multibillion-dollar bidding war over ABN became public, the bank said. âWe have received a request from the NYSE regarding transactions ahead of the announcement of our merger talks with Barclays,â a spokesman, Neil Moorhouse, said, reading a statement. He said ABN was cooperating with the investigation, but could not comment on whether there was any reason to suspect insider trading. The Supreme Court in the Netherlands is expected to make a ruling Friday in the fight between Barclays and a consortium of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland to buy ABN Amro for about 71 billion euros ($97.6 billion).
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Foreign Institutional Investor Warburg Pincus International will pick up 2.75 per cent stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank for Rs 75.9 crore (Rs 759 million), subject to shareholders&#39; approval.
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A Japanese firm pioneers a system to share fragrances over the internet.  Also: A Bollywood movie makes its debut on cell phones & hellip;. Merck smarting from Vioxx pull & hellip;. and more.
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FOR the past two years, Asian stock markets have been high on the favoured list for Britainâs pension and life assurance funds. Asia, particularly China, has offered the double attraction of strong current
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NEW YORK/SYDNEY  - NYSE Euronext  and Australia's ASX Ltd  may be interested in buying part of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc's  31 percent stake in London Stock Exchange Plc , a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.