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| U.K.'s Lloyd's To Buy Mortgage Lender HBOS - Street.Com The U.K.'s Lloyds TSB Group agreed to acquire mortgage lender HBOS PLC for more than $22 billion in a deal backed by the British government aimed at helping to stabilize the British financial system during the world's ongoing credit crisis Source: www.thestreet.com MidAmerican Energy to buy Constellation for $4.7B - Forbes Natural gas and buy truck electric company MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. said Thursday it will buy Constellation Energy Group Inc. for $4.7 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican will pay $26.50 per share for the Baltimore-based Source: www.forbes.com Citigroup won t buy Washington Mutual - MSNBC NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc is unlikely to proceed with a possible deal involving savings and buy truck loan company Washington Mutual Inc., the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing one person familiar with the situation. Sources familiar with the matter Source: www.msnbc.msn.com Funds I Won't Buy - Washington Post Resize Some people invest in funds almost entirely by looking at the numbers. I think that's a mistake. Just as good fund managers almost always try to get to know a company's managers before they buy a stock, I want to understand what makes a fund Source: www.washingtonpost.com Firms will buy back $1.8 b in auction rate securities - Boston Globe WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority , or FINRA, announced today agreements in principle with five financial-services firms to repurchase more than $1.8 billion of auction-rate securities. FINRA, which describes itself as Source: www.boston.com Rockets buy loads of supplies for Ike victims - ESPN.com HOUSTON -- The Houston Rockets purchased four tractor-trailers full of food, water and buy truck toiletries for victims of Hurricane Ike and buy truck players unloaded them at a distribution center Thursday. The four trucks carried 80,000 pounds of supplies, said team Source: sports.espn.go.com Methode Electronics to buy back 3 million shares - Forbes Methode Electronics Inc. said Thursday its board authorized the repurchase of up to 3 million shares. At the stock's closing price Wednesday of $8.63, the 3 million shares would cost about $25.9 million. The authorization is valid through fiscal 2010 Source: www.forbes.com |