News Corp sees closing Dow Jones deal in two months
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News Corp's  deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc  should close in the next 60 days, a top News Corp executive said on Monday.
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Dow Jones & Co  and its main labor union are close to a contract agreement for reporters and other employees at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, the New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday, citing union officials.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.&#39;s  board  will take over negotiations from the company&#39;s controlling  family regarding a $5 billion offer from Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp. (NWSa.N), Dow Jones said on Wednesday.
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The family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on Thursday it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.  to discuss News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones.
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Dow Jones & Co.&#39;s board and Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. have completed talks on a $5 billion  buyout of Dow Jones and are expected to announce a deal next  week, London&#39;s The Business weekly magazine reported on Friday.
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By Lilly Vitorovich Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Rupert Murdoch has seven weeks to convince News Corp. (NWS) shareholders a move to the US will make the media conglomerate more attractive to
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The family that controls Dow Jones & Co.  said for the first time it would consider selling the publisher of the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , dropping its outright opposition to his $5 billion bid.
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New York Times Co. on Monday forecast  third-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street's  average targets on weak revenue so far in September, sending  its shares to two-year lows.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc. Chief Executive Richard Zannino tentatively agreed on Monday to a $5 billion takeover bid by News Corp., though the company's controlling Bancroft family remains divided on the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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NEW YORK - Dow Jones &amp; Co. has reached a tentative deal on a contract with the reporters union at The Wall Street Journal, ending several months of sometimes contentious talks.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co. on Wednesday cut its earnings forecast for the current quarter, citing weakness this month in key advertising categories at its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
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News Corp.&#39;s (NWSa.N) $60 a share bid  for Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  is a &quot;fairly attractive&quot; price,  its largest outside shareholder said in an interview with the  Financial Times on Wednesday.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. have "basically agreed" on safeguards to the editorial independence of Dow Jones' news operations, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, setting the stage for Dow Jones to accept a $5 billion buyout offer.
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By Megan Davies NEW YORK  - U.S. blue chips closed at two-monthhighs on Tuesday as a fall in oil prices eased concerns thathigh energy costs would hurt corporate profits, but there wassome caution as investors awaited a speech by Federal ReserveChairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday.
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WARSAW -- Rupert Murdoch said yesterday he had no plans to raise his $5 billion bid for media group Dow Jones &amp; Co. Inc. and expected final approval from its controlling Bancroft family within two to three weeks, "if at all."
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N)  has reached a tentative deal to buy Dow Jones & Co. Inc.   for $5 billion, though its controlling Bancroft family remained  divided on the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  and  Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N) are close to a pact that  would protect the journalistic independence of The Wall Street  Journal if News Corp. acquired the media company, according to  newspaper reports on Sunday.