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Wall Street Journal
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Jul 27, 07 6:27 AM CDT
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Leveraged buyouts, which have fueled Wall Street booms with offers of huge premiums on shares of target companies, are sputtering to a halt, the Wall Street Journal reports. Private equity firms, which just weeks ago were predicting acquisitions worth $100 billion and more, are now finding large-scale borrowing too expensive to make deals worthwhile.
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Wall Street Journal
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Jul 26, 07 9:03 AM CDT
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Banks yesterday postponed the sale of $12 billion of debt intended to finance the deal that will split off Chrysler from parent DaimlerChrysler. The Journal reports that the holdup is part of a global pinch on the market for corporate debt, and escalating borrowing costs have the potential to slow down a host of high-profile buyouts.
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CNN
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Jul 23, 07 3:55 PM CDT
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In an attempt to lower resistance to their proposed merger, satellite radio providers Sirius and XM unveiled new pricing plans today that they say will cut subscription prices by 46%. The plans, which start at $6.99 as opposed to the current $12.95 per month standard price, also allow listeners to select channels to add a la carte.
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BBC
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Jul 23, 07 12:06 PM CDT
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The Chinese and Singaporean governments have invested almost $5 billion in Barclays, helping the firm float more cash for its bid for ABN. The state-run companies would invest even more if the bid succeeds, which would leave the Chinese state with a holding of 7.7% of the world's new largest bank.
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Bloomberg
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Jul 19, 07 4:50 AM CDT
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Shares in Macy's soared amid reports of a pending $24-billion buyout plan by KKR and Goldman Sachs, reports Bloomberg . Stock rose $3.06—7.6%—to $43.09 after Women's Wear Daily reported the news. The Wall Street firms would pay $52 a share—a 30% premium on Wednesday's close, according to the report.
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TheStreet
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Jul 18, 07 6:04 PM CDT
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Get ready for the Fox Dow. If Rupert Murdoch is willing to pay $6B for a company that produced $105M in income last year, he must be seeing hidden opportunities, argues Brett Arends in the street.com. Dow Jones controls the name of the financial index—and if the sale goes through, Murdoch could change it to whatever he pleases.
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Wall Street Journal
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Jul 18, 07 6:15 AM CDT
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The CEO of Whole Foods apologized yesterday for boosting his company and posting snide comments about a rival supermarket chain in Internet forums and said he "had fun doing it." John Mackey's actions over the last 8 years have already triggered an SEC investigation, and the company's board said yesterday it will launch its probe, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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paidContent.org
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Jul 17, 07 8:06 AM CDT
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Question: What is the amount tiny Answers.com ($7 million in 2006 revenues), the operator of a reference aggregation site, has agreed to pay for equally tiny Lexico, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. In order to raise the $100 million purchase price Answers has filed for a $140 million offering.
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Reuters
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Jul 16, 07 10:50 PM CDT
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Breakfast giant International House of Pancakes is acquiring the bar-and-grill chain Applebee's for $1.9B, or $25.50 a share—4.6% higher than Friday's closing price. IHOP will turn most of Applebee's 508 restaurants into franchises at a rate of 40 per quarter beginning in 2008, a move that execs hope will cut costs and revitalize the struggling pancake maker.
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Reuters
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Jul 16, 07 5:09 PM CDT
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Educational-publishing giant Houghton Mifflin grew even bigger today, agreeing to acquire three of Reed Elsevier's divisions for $4 billion. Boston-based Houghton will pay $3.7 billion in cash and the remainder in stock of its parent company for the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade, and Greenwood-Heinemann imprints, Reuters reports, leaving the sector largely in the hands of Houghton, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill.
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Bloomberg
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Jul 9, 07 5:41 PM CDT
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French food corp Groupe Danone put in a $16.8B cash offer to buy baby food magnate Royal Numico—at just under $75 a share, a 38% premium over last week's closing price. The acquisition will make Danone an industry leader in the baby food market and should be finalized within weeks, Bloomberg reports.
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BBC
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Jul 5, 07 4:57 PM CDT
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CVC Capital, a British private equity firm, has bought out Samsonite, the American luggage line, in an all-cash deal worth $1.7B, BBC reports. CVC will pay $1.49 a share--12% more than the stock was worth Tuesday. Samonsite has had five owners in the last 21 years, as luggage sales in general have declined.
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Wall Street Journal
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Jul 5, 07 4:54 PM CDT
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Coca-Cola is talking to private-equity firms about purchasing Cadbury Schweppes PLC's Snapple and Mott's brands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Coke is trying to expand its presence in the fast-growing market for noncarbonated drinks--namely juices, waters and ready-to-drink teas, like Snapple. Mott's includes apple juice and sauces, as well as other items.
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Times (UK)
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Jul 3, 07 6:51 PM CDT
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Kraft moved to elevate its international profile today with a $7.2 billion for Danone's biscuit division, setting up a deal that would make the Oreo manufacturer Europe's largest cookie maker. The polyglot alliance of Ritz crackers and Petit Ecolier biscuits faces numerous obstacles, the Times of London reports, including a likely EU investigation and possible French government and labor resistance.
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Wall Street Journal
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Jul 2, 07 1:37 PM CDT
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The friendly corporate raiders at the Carlyle Group have floated an offer to buy out Virgin Media, the British cable provider, with total equity in the range of $8B and $10B, the Journal reports. The besieged media company has been losing customers to rivals in the UK, and has stacked up debt nearing $12B.
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