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MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish banking giant Banco Santander said yesterday it has agreed to buy the British mortgage lender Alliance & Leicester plc. in a deal valued at $2.5 billion.
Banco Santander, which also owns Britain's Abbey National Bank, sai...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Activist investor Carl Icahn said yesterday that replacing Yahoo Inc.'s current board of directors would ensure an acquisition deal with Microsoft Corp.
In urging shareholders to vote for his slate of nine directors, Icahn said he was...
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Royal Philips Electronics NV, the world's largest maker of lighting products, said yesterday its second quarter profit fell by more than half, despite resilient sales in a battered global economy.
Philips said its net in...
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SEOUL, South Korea (Bloomberg) - Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest semiconductor maker, plans to spend 1.05 trillion won ($1.05 billion) to upgrade its memory-chip manufacturing lines and expand capacity.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British manufacturers hiked prices in June at the fastest annual pace in at least two decades to combat record cost inflation, underlining the dilemma facing the Bank of England (BoE) as the economy slows but prices jump.
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Bermuda-based consulting firm Accenture has been awarded a new contract by the Bronnoysund Register Centre to continue the development and running of Norway's business and citizen online communication portal Altinn.
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FARNBOROUGH, UK (Bloomberg) — Boeing Co., the world's second- biggest plane maker, said it won an order for 45 widebody aircraft from Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, worth about $9 billion at list prices.
Etihad will...
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TOKYO (AP) - A British hedge fund said yesterday it will accept the Japanese government's rejection of its proposal to raise its stake in a major utility - although it added that it still does not agree with the reasoning behind the order.
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Ace has announced the appointment of Phil Sharpe as director of casualty and major risks for the UK and Ireland. In his role, Mr. Sharpe will manage Ace UK's casualty portfolio across all 11 of its offices in the UK and Ireland, as well as co-ordinat...
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