Accredited Home tender extended by Lone Star
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Lone Star Funds, a private equity firm seeking to abandon its $400 million purchase of Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co , said on Tuesday it extended its tender offer to buy the struggling subprime mortgage lender to September 12.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Thursday  said it had again extended its $7.7 billion tender offer for  all of the common stock of rival business software maker  PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O though it did not change the terms of  its hostile takeover proposal.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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To help homeowners with high property taxes, Governor Deval Patrick is proposing to extend a disputed measure that temporarily allows municipalities to collect a greater share of taxes from business properties.
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The first indication that the value of RFID (radio frequency identification) will extend beyond the supply warehouse was shown last week by WhereNet, a provider of wireless location and communications technology.
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By Susan Schrock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 27--ARLINGTON -- Less than a year after its first attempt, the city is seeking a developer to bring new life to the former site of the dilapidated and crime-ridden High Oak Terrace Apartments in north Arlington.
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A Spanish bank has reached an agreement to acquire Laredo National Bancshares Inc. for $850 million. Laredo-based LNB, which has a branch in Austin at 5532 Manchaca Rd.
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The British government said on Tuesday  it was extending guarantee arrangements for Northern Rock   to cover some unsubordinated wholesale obligations of  the stricken bank, whether existing now or in the future.
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The House on Tuesday approved a plan to expand federal backing of mortgages in hopes of helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure
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Blog: Company is apparently expanding its Austin presence, with plans to construct an 80,000-square-foot building in the Texas capital.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc said on Monday that under a tender offer that expired on  August 31, it agreed to buy 289.331 million shares of its  common stock for a total value of $10.7 billion.
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There was a measure of relief for the banking sector on Tuesday after the Treasury extended its guarantee beyond Northern Rock's customer deposits to its wholesale banking products.
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Oracle has extended its $21-per-share tender offer to PeopleSoft&#39;s shareholders, which was due to expire this week. The new deadline is September 10th.
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By R.A. Dyer, and Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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The Senate on Friday overwhelmingly  passed legislation to expand the nation's largest federal  homeownership program in a move that could help struggling  subprime borrowers avoid foreclosure.
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Private equity house Lone Star sold a larger-than-expected 13.6 percent stake in lender Korea Exchange Bank, raising $1.28 billion, a source said, as the U.S. firm begins to exit an investment burdened by legal challenges.
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By Tony Davis, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Open-space bonds pick up Six-Bar spread  Pima County has bought its sixth ranch using voter-approved open- space bonds: the Six-Bar Ranch in the San Pedro River Valley northeast of Tucson, for $11.6 million.