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ImClone accepts $6 billion-plus buyout bid from Lilly; Bristol-Myers won't raise offer
AP Business WritersINDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Eli Lilly & Co.'s winning bid of more than $6 billion for cancer drugmaker ImClone Systems means a billion-dollar payday for former rival bidder Bristol-Myers and vindication for corporate raider and ImClone Chairman Carl Icahn. Lilly...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Credit Ratings, Sales, Corporate Officers, Bristol Myers Squibb Company
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Lilly looking to its future in $6 billion ImClone deal
From Chicago Tribune news servicesEli Lilly & Co.'s winning bid of more than $6 billion for cancer drug-maker ImClone Systems Inc. means a billion-dollar payday for former rival bidder Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and vindication for billionaire investor and ImClone Chairman Carl Icahn....Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Sales, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Lilly Eli & Co, Merck & Company Incorporated
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Delaware judge says Hexion can't walk away from buyout of Huntsman
AP Business WriterDOVER, Del. (AP) _ A Delaware judge has refused to allow Hexion Specialty Chemicals to walk away from a $6.5 billion buyout of chemicals maker Huntsman Corp. In a ruling late Monday, Vice Chancellor Stephen Lamb ordered Hexion, an affiliate of private...Tags: Huntsman Corporation, Judges, Bankruptcy, Court Administration, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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General Growth CFO exits; firm defers dividend
Chicago Tribune reportersGeneral Growth Properties Inc. said Friday that Chief Financial Officer Bernard Freibaum, who has been obliged to sell millions of company shares to satisfy margin calls, has left the embattled real estate investment trust. The Chicago-based REIT also...Tags: Sales, Corporate Officers, Real Estate Sellers, General Growth Properties Incorporated, Property
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Some Constellation shareholders sue to stop buyout
The Associated PressCritics of a $4.7 billion buyout of Constellation Energy Group have filed at least five shareholder lawsuits to stop the deal. The lawsuits filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court claim Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy low-balled Constellation's value and was...Tags: MidAmerican Energy Company, Trials, Warren Buffett, Constellation Energy Group, Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated
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Deals
Longs Drug Stores Corp. on Tuesday repeated its refusal to enter buyout talks with Walgreen Co., or share information with its larger rival. Walgreen has offered to buy Longs for $75 per share, or $2.8 billion. However, Longs has accepted CVS Caremark...Tags: CVS Corporation, Longs Drug Stores Corporation, Walgreen Co.
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The markets in 60 seconds
Buffett investing billions in Goldman Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, a huge vote of confidence for one of the survivors of the credit crisis that felled two of its investment-banking peers....Tags: CVS Corporation, Stock Activities, Warren Buffett, Longs Drug Stores Corporation, Walgreen Co.
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Motley Fool: On Being Contrary
Fool's School Super-investor Warren Buffett has said: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy only when others are fearful." That's great advice — you can make a lot of money by being contrary. Consider the old saying, "Buy low, sell...Tags: Shareholders, Warren Buffett
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Volatility hits close to home
As the nation's financial system struggled to avert a full-scale crisis, the stock market endured a wild week. However, after all the frantic buying and selling that saw four swings of more than 300 points on the Dow Jones industrial average, key...Tags: CVS Corporation, Northern Trust Corporation, Sales, Stock Activities, Longs Drug Stores Corporation
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InBev shareholders approve buyout offer of Anheuser-Busch
OrlandoSentinel.comSeaWorld Orlando, Busch Entertainment and Budweiser are all a step closer to becoming properties of InBev but there's still no certainty that the Belgian brewing giant wants anything other than the beer. InBev announced this morning that its...
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