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Banco do Brasil obtains syndicated loan

A USD1 billion syndicated loan was formalized by Banco do Brasil with five international lending institutions.


Interest in Twitter enough for full purchase of IPO shares

Twitter IPO volume expected to be fully taken because of increased interest from investors. According to people with knowledge of the matter, Twitter had already attracted more than enough demand to sell all of the IPO shares it can offer.

Container Store Group to do IPO

Container Store Group Inc had planned to raise USD225 million during its IPO. Storage and organization products retailer Container Store Group Inc had laid out plans to sell USD225 million worth of shares in its US IPO.

China Construction Bank Corp purchases majority shareholdings in Banco Industrial & Comercial SA

BicBanco's 72% would be acquired by China Construction Bank Corp for BRL1.62 billion. China's second largest financial institution in terms of assets, China Construction Bank Corp, had entered into an agreement to pay BRL1.


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Pumpmaker ITT is expanding both on the shareholder value side and on the operations side as demand for pumps had increased by half in the third quarter alone.
Without government backing, Citigroup is now offering mortgage backed securities backed by prime jumbo mortgages mortgages from private sources.
The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday.
To gain foothold for mobile broadband adoption in Europe, AT&T is seeking to acquire major telecoms firms such as Vodafone in the near future.
Denmark's Waoo!, Sweden's Com Hem and the UK's Virgin Media are the latest additions to the Netflix galaxy of streaming partners.
Novaquest Capital Management lands USD459 million for its Fund III. NovaQuest Capital Management had announced the closure of NovaQuest Pharma Opportunities Fund III LP.
Alexander Mann Solutions was purchased for GBP260 million by private equity firm New Mountain Capital.
The Commercial Bank of Qatar is set to undertake a perpetual bond issue to cover the acquisition of Turkey's Alternatifbank.
Like many other Gulf Cooperation Council banks, AUB is now seeking investments overseas for diversification purposes.
Volkswagen's sales in the US remained a mystery to its manufacturers. Volkswagen AG (VW), the world's third largest automaker in the world, is disappointed with its US sales, according to Bloomberg report.