UPDATE 3-BlackRock buys State Street Research for $375 mln
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BlackRock Inc. (BLK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the largest US fixed income managers, said on Thursday it will pay $375 million for its smaller competitor State Street Research &amp; Management Co.
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Tishman Speyer Properties and  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. are close to a deal to acquire  real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust, according  to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy online financial news provider MarketWatch Inc. for about $463 million in a bid to boost its revenue from the fast-growing Internet advertising market.
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Tishman Speyer Properties and  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  are close to a deal to  acquire real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust  , according to the online edition of The Wall Street  Journal.
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Blackstone Group  raised its bid for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $23 billion in cash on Tuesday after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer in the latest round of the fight to control the top U.S. office landlord.
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Investment manager BlackRock Inc. reached a deal to buy SSRM Holdings Inc., the parent company of State Street Research &amp; Management Co.
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Tishman has joined with Lehman Brothers to buy Archstone-Smith Trust, the second-largest public apartment owner in terms of market cap and asset value, for $13.5 billion.
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Danversbank is headed to Wall Street. The $1.2 billion-asset bank has applied to the state Division of Banks to become a publicly traded company. The bank filed an application last week to convert from a mutual bank, owned by its depositors, to stock ownership. Sandler O'Neil and Partners LP, an investment bank, will handle the stock sale, which must be ...
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Qatar's state investment fund is close to buying Nasdaq's 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange Group  for just over $5.6 billion, newspaper reports said on Sunday.
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Spain's BBVA buys the Compass Bancshares of the USA for 9.6bn.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire  Hathaway Inc(BRKa.N)(BRKb.N), in its second acquisition this  week, agreed to buy the NRG NV reinsurance unit of ING Group NV   for about 300 million euros ($441 million).
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  on Tuesday said it agreed to be acquired by Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  for $22.2 billion, reflecting a strong, lingering appetite for real estate by private investors.
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In NEW YORK item, please read headline as UPDATE 1-Franklin Resources in $20 million SEC settlement, not $21 million. A corrected version follows.
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Tishman Speyer Properties LP and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. agreed to buy US apartment developer Archstone-Smith Trust for $13.5 billion, expanding their residential assets as rents rise.
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The Blackstone Group, the private equity firm, bought a 20 percent stake in a Chinese chemical company in its first deal in the country since a Chinese government fund bought into the group. Blackstone, which is based in New York, paid $600 million for the stake in the state-owned China National BlueStar Corporation, the two companies said. The deal, which requires regulatory approval, cements Blackstoneâs status as a central player on the mainland. China National Bluestar is a unit of the China National Chemical Corporation, a state-owned enterprise better known as ChemChina.
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Bond trader Cantor Fitzgerald is  combining its electronic brokerage eSpeed , which has  been a takeover target, with its BGC Partners inter-dealer  broker into a new publicly listed company in a $1.3 billion  deal.
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The Motley Fool - On Monday, Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP - News) announced that it had agreed to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion. The terms of the agreement call for Blackstone to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Equity Office at an 8.5% premium over its closing price on November 17, 2006.