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General Mills to buy Diageo's Pillsbury for $10.5bn
General Mills Inc., the maker of Cheerios cereal, agreed to buy Diageo Plc's Pillsbury unit for $10.5 billion in stock and assumed debt to create the third- largest U.S. food company. Genera...
UBS set to buy PaineWebber
UBS, the Swiss banking group, is close to announcing an agreement to buy PaineWebber, the US brokerage, for about $12bn in a deal that would give the Swiss bank access to investors in the he...
NTT DoCoMo, KPN to buy 35% of Hutchison unit
NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Dutch partner KPN Mobile NV plan to invest as much as $2 billion in a unit of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. to access the U.K. market for cellular phones offering high-speed Int...
NBG to make a buy in Romania
The largest Greek commercial bank, the National Bank of Greece (NBG), is set on expanding to Romania, and is currently trying to acquire a Romanian bank, most likely Banca Comerciala Romana...
Tribune Co. in talks to buy Times Mirror for $8.1bn
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 14) Tribune Co. is in talks to buy Times Mirror Co. for $8.1 billion in cash, stock and assumed debt to create one of the biggest U.S. newsp...
Under siege, PD tries to buy time
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 13) Coalition leaders did not manage on Thursday to reach an accord that would put an end to the political crisis, as PD (Democrat Party) re...