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COPT Prices Offering of 6,000,000 Series L Cumulative Preferred Shares

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) (NYSE: OFC) announced the pricing of its public offering of 6,000,000 of its 7.375% Series L Cumulative Preferred Shares with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share.


Navistar adopts poison pill as big investors circle

Embattled U.S. truck and engine maker Navistar International Corp drew a line in the sand with activist investors on Wednesday by adopting a poison pill aimed at keeping outsiders from gaining a stake of 15 percent or more.

Thiel starts Mithril Capital with $402 mln fund

Thiel starts Mithril Capital with $402 mln fund. With the founding of Mithril Capital Management, investor and Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel is setting his sights on another investment strategy: growth venture-capital.

JPMorgan sweetens Technicolor offer

JPMorgan amended its offer to shareholders of Technicolor. JPMorgan amended its offer to shareholders of Technicolor, the troubled French digital video specialist, to outpace a rival bid by private equity investor Vector Capital.


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SVB Financial Group's banking unit Silicon Valley Bank said it plans to lend $100 million to the Irish innovation sector.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) made a $2 billion takeover offer for Australia's Consolidated Media Holdings (CMJ.AX) on Wednesday.
KKR has reached a first close of $3 billion for its $6 billion Asian fund. KKR & Co LP is setting up its first deals team in Singapore as the U. S.
Rio Tinto (RIO.AX) (RIO.L) will spend $3.7 billion to boost its Australian output of iron ore. Rio Tinto (RIO. AX) (RIO. L) will spend $3. 7 billion to boost its Australian output of iron ore, its most profitable business, shrugging off forecasts of waning demand and a looming global supply glut as Chinese manufacturing slows.
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The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) today announced a strategic agreement to enable global businesses to move money quickly and reliably across borders.
Barilla said on Tuesday it was looking to sell its only remaining German business. Barilla, the world's biggest pasta maker, said on Tuesday it was looking to sell its only remaining German business, bakery chain Lieken AG, as the company increases its focus on pasta and higher-margin food products.
Walgreen Co said it would buy a 45 percent stake in KKR & Co-backed Alliance Boots for $6.7 billion in a cash and stock deal.
jobs search engine Bright has secured $6 million in initial venture capital to kick off a service that analyzes job seekers and matches them with posted jobs across the Internet.
Kenyan investment firm Centum (ICDC.NR) posted a 40 percent drop in full year profit on Tuesday without issuing a profit warning beforehand as required by market rules, sending its shares tumbling.