India Times:
Emaar Properties expects "technical talks" for its planned merger with state owned developers to be concluded within a month, its chairman said in remarks aired on Saturday. (Read More)
Dealscape:
Is Neelie Kroes, the European Commission's merger-meddling competition chief, looking to stick around for an unprecedented second term? Her tenure ends Dec. 31, but the word in Brussels is that she... (Read More)
Financial Times:
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom say they see no reason to bow to Ofcom, the telecoms watchdog, to gain regulatory approval for the merger of their UK operations. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Investors in Thomas Cook and Tui Travel must wish they could get away from it all. The two travel companies were the biggest fallers in the leading index following downgrades on both companies from Morgan Stanley. In particul (Read More)
The Guardian:
Shares in National Express have accelerated by nearly 5% on news that the Cosmen family has increased its stake in the bus and rail operator.According to an official statement Jorge Cosmen has bought another 501,823 shares at (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Paul Price submits:BK:NYSE Nov. 20, 2009 - $26.05 Dividend = $0.09 quarterly = 1.38% current yield Bank of New York Mellon was created by the July 2007 merger between Mellon Financial and Bank of New York making it one of th (Read More)
www.ft.com:
South-east Asia's largest low-cost airline is considering a secondary listing in Thailand, which could lead to a merger of AirAsia with its Thai and Indonesian affiliates. (Read More)
FT.com - Brussels, Competition:
The European Commission extends the deadline for approval of Oracle's proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems. (Read More)
India Times:
In a company town where the street lamps are shaped like chocolate kisses and orphans are cared for with corporate largesse, the prospect that America’s biggest chocolate maker may merge with a foreign entity has unnerved som (Read More)
USATODAY.com Money - Top Stories:
German carmakers Volkswagen and Porsche said Friday they had come closer to merging the two companies, with the supervisory ...
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Reuters: Deals:
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The supervisory board of indebted automotive holding Porsche SE signed off on a contract to merge with its majority-owned, cash-rich subsidiary Volkswagen by 2011, Porsche said on Friday.
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SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Roger Nusbaum submits: IndexIQ is coming out of the gate as a bit of an enigma. The new Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA) at first glance seems odd to me. There have been several articles already that have ripped it up for not reall (Read More)
Reuters: Mergers News:
BRUSSELS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The following are planned
mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief
guide to the EU merger process:
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All Things Digital:
The European Union’s formal objection to Oracle’s (ORCL) proposed acquisition of Sun (JAVA) has evidently transformed the database giant’s intransigency into a grudging agreeability. The EU has extended the deadline or approv (Read More)
Financial Times:
The European Commission, the EU’s main competition watchdog, has extended the deadline for approval of Oracle’s proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems. (Read More)
FT.com - Lombard:
The market frisson about a potential merger between the UK's Reckitt Benckiser and US toothpaste king Colgate-Palmolive has a certain logic. (Read More)
Nagpur-Cities-The Times of India:
The much-awaited merger of Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Limited (MEL) with its parent company Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) will take six more months. (Read More)
India Times:
Shares of consumer goods biggie UK-based Reckitt Benckiser, which owns brands like Dettol and Lysol, and US giant Colgate Palmolive were up by over 3% on the global bourses on Thursday on speculation that the UK company is cl (Read More)
Financial Times:
On FT Alphaville Wednesday morning,- UK unemployment at highest rate since 1996.- The technical end of the recession doesn’t mean much.-`There’s no free lunch in credit anymore.’- The IRS will save commercial real estate.- Le (Read More)