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Reuters  9 hrs ago  Comment 
U.S. guidelines on how regulators assess mergers tell business too little about how antitrust agencies work and fail to take the latest economic theories into account, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said on Thursday.
Times Online  Dec 3  Comment 
Yorkshire Building Society has agreed to buy Chelsea Building Society, its loss-making rival, in a deal that will result in job cuts and a £200 million writedown on Chelsea’s bad debts.
AlphaNinja  Dec 2  Comment 
Index IQ has come out with a "hedge fund for the masses." This one is called the IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (exchange traded fund), and it is destined to confuse and potentially (accidentally?) harm investors. I'd bet money that they'll be required...
EE Times  Dec 2  Comment 
The proposed merger between Japanese chip makers Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics has been approved by the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union.
TechCrunch  Dec 2  Comment 
It's fairly ironic to learn that there was still a lawsuit lingering over Time Warner's merger with America Online from the beginning of this decade, given that AOL is in the process of spinning off and hitting the public markets as an independent...
Reuters  Dec 2  Comment 
The government has not yet taken a decision on merging state-run banks, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.
guardian.co.uk  Dec 2  Comment 
Merger of UK's second and fifth biggest societies likely to lead to job losses among back-office staff and branch closures Two of the UK's biggest building societies announced plans today to merge in a move they said would create an organisation...
Reuters  Dec 1  Comment 
Britain's second-largest customer-owned lender Yorkshire Building Society and loss-making rival Chelsea are in "advanced" merger talks, continuing months of consolidation in a sector battered by the financial crisis.
TechCrunch  Dec 1  Comment 
Digital Sky Technologies (aka DST), the Russian Internet holding company that holds stakes in several major Russian-language social networking and communication players and notably also recently invested in Facebook, is melting two of its largest...
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