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Total Sells Shareholdings in Cancelled Canadian Project
French oil giant Total will be selling off to Suncor its shareholdings in the Voyageur Upgrader joint venture project.
IPOs in First Quarter Sets Stage for Growth
The IPO market is growing again in North America and Europe. Globally, initial public offerings raised US$20 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The growth of this financial area was buoyed by rallies in different stock markets to sell businesses.
Japan to list LNG Futures in Tokyo Commodity Exchange
Japan, with its ever increasing demand for LNG, plans to create an LNG Futures listing with the Tokyo Commodities Exchange.
SAC Capital Settlement with SEC in Jeopardy
The judge over the settlement agreement between SAC Capital and US SEC is having second thoughts with a few provisions.
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Joh A Benkinser has offered to purchase DE Masters Blenders for Eur6.4 billion. A Eur6. 4 billion buyout bid was made by Joh A Benkiser, a German investor for D.
Keith Meister's Corvex Capital and Related Cos has withdrawn their original US$27.00 per share offer and lowered it to US$24.50 per share offer.
MTS and Vimpelcom joins the A1 versus VTB bidding war for Tele2 Russia. After the bid made by billionaire Mikhail Fridman's A1 Investment Group, new bidders have made offers to join Tele2 AB's Russian subsidiary.
Amazon purchases Goodreads for an undisclosed amount. Goodreads is a book recommendation website and is now the subject of acquisition plans by online retail giant Amazon.
Jean Claud Gandur planning to offer Oryx Petroleum for IPO in Toronto. Billionaire investor Jean Claude Gandur, through his company Addax & Oryx Group is now on its way to publicly list its oil exploration unit.
Sprint's offer of US$80 million per month would again be utilized by Clearwire. According to anonymous sources, Clearwire Corp is planning to notify Sprint Nextel Corp that it will be utilizing another US$80 million in financing as part of its deal agreed upon with Sprint.
Blackberry becomes ideal for a potential takeover as it reports good earnings. Blackberry has reported good earnings higher than what analysts expected, making an ideal candidate for a buyout by a larger technology company, said CNBC's Jim Cramer.
Fiat to secure credit line to prepare for options in the next move for Chrysler shares. Fiat SpA has reached out to banks for the refinancing of its Eur1.
TNT Express has decided to sell its its Hoau domestic road operations in China to private equity funds following UPS back-out.
Credit Suisse, the second-largest banker in Switzerland, has signed an deal to sell British wealth manager JO Hambro Investment Mangement Ltd. to investment company Bermuda National,




