Plains to buy Pogo in stock, cash deal
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Independent oil and gas producer Plains Exploration & Production Co.  will buy peer Pogo Producing Co.  for $3.46 billion in stock and cash, nearly doubling its production capacity, Plains said on Tuesday.
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US baseball card-maker Topps says rival Upper Deck has gone to it with an informal takeover offer.
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The online game operator Giant Interactive Group said that it would buy back up to $200 million worth of American depositary shares. The company plans to fund the repurchases from available working capital, it said in a statement.
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Ahold has agreed to sell its Bruno's and BI-LO shop units in the United States to Lone Star Funds for $660 million, the Dutch retailer said yesterday.
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HOUSTON Pogo Producing Company today announced it&#39;s agreed to buy some oil and natural gas properties -- mainly in West Texas.
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AMSTERDAM: Ahold has agreed to sell its Bruno&#39;s and BILO shop units in the United States to Lone Star Funds for US$660mil, the Dutch retailer said yesterday.
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Dow Jones & Co. DJ.N, publisher of the  Wall Street Journal, said it is to buy online news site  operator MarketWatch Inc. MKTW.OQ to grow the revenues it  derives from the Internet.
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Reddy Ice Holdings Inc. , a maker of  packaged ice, said it agreed to be acquired by certain funds  managed by hedge fund GSO Capital Partners LP in a deal with a  total value of about $1.1 billion.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless  tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of  infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia&#39;s  Macquarie Group.
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Bank of Montreal, Canada&#39;s fifth largest bank, said Wednesday it plans to buy privately held Mercantile Bancorp Inc., as well as the stock of Lake Commercial Corp.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., which lost in its battle to cross the Atlantic with a failed takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange, is expected to announce Friday it is acquiring Swedish exchange operator OMX AB in a deal worth up to $3 billion, according to a person close to the deal.
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Qwest Communications International Inc.  on Wednesday said it will buy back up to $2 billion worth of its stock, but disappointment over a lack of a dividend announcement weighed on the phone company's stock after the bell.
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The Dutch navigation systems company said it plans to make a cash offer of 21.25 euro per share for digital map supplier Tele Atlas, valuing the company at 2 billion euros ($2.76 billion).
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The Dutch navigation systems company said it plans to make a cash offer of 21.25 euros per share for digital map supplier Tele Atlas, valuing the company at 2 billion euros ($2.76 billion).
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Alltel Corp. , the leading rural telephone company, on Monday said it would buy rural mobile operator Western Wireless Corp.  for about &#36;4.15 billion in cash and stock to boost its competitive position in the rapidly consolidating U.S. wireless industry.
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Paetec Holding, the U.S. phone company focused on corporate customers, agreed to buy closely held McLeodUSA for $492 million in stock to gain its high-speed fiber-optic network.
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Petco Animal Supplies Inc.  on  Friday said it agreed to be acquired by two private equity  groups for about &#36;1.68 billion in cash, the latest in a string  of retailers agreeing to go private.