Hollinger to pay $500m special dividend
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Hollinger International, the US publishing group which this year ousted Conrad Black as its chairman, has declared a special dividend following the sale earlier this year of The Telegraph Group, its flagship newspaper asset.
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The company, battered by the subprime crisis, said it would sell a $5 billion stake to a Chinese investment fund.
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$500 million goes into the buyback kitty.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  plans to sweeten its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.  by adding a special dividend for CBOT shareholders, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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A stock for dividend investors to put on their watch lists.
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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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Adolph Coors Co. and Montreal-based brewer Molson Inc. said Friday that they will pay a special dividend to Molson shareholders in connection with the companies&#39; merger.
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Sallie Mae  said on Wednesday it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory convertible securities to help pay off derivatives contracts that amounted to a bet that its share price would keep increasing.
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Dean Foods Co.  said on Friday it would pay a special dividend of $15 per share, or about $2 billion, in a move seen as a defense against private equity firms looking to milk Dean for cash.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co.&#39;s intention to pay $519 million in cash for business news publisher MarketWatch Inc. represents another step toward building its online news operation.
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Molson Inc., Canada&#39;s biggest brewer, and Adolph Coors Co., agreed to pay Molson shareholders a special dividend of C$381 million ($315 million) as part of their proposed merger in an effort to win over investors.
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CHICAGO - Hollinger International Inc. said Tuesday it will take a pretax charge of $27 million to settle advertisers&#39; lawsuits over inflated circulation numbers issued for years by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Hollinger International has said that it will sell The Jerusalem Post&#39;s publishing group as the company continues to unload assets amid a battle with Conrad Black, its major shareholder and former top executive.
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explanation of market-timing, further attorney comment. Picks up last graf. Also moving on general news wires. DENVER  _ The former chief executive of Invesco Funds Group has agreed to pay $500,000 to
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TORONTO -- A special committee of Hollinger International, which was instrumental in ousting Conrad Black as head of the Chicago-based newspaper company, filed its final report in an Illinois court yesterday.
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Former press baron Conrad Black has made a proposal to buy out the minority shareholders of his Canadian holding company Hollinger Inc.
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Nigeria agrees a deal for US investment bank Merrill Lynch to take on most of its $500m debt.