Insurer Aetna has inked a deal to purchase its arch rival Coventry Health Care for$5.7bn in cash and stock,paving a way to emerge as a major player of government-financed health care segment. Upon completion of the acquisition of ...
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Norwegian seafood group Marine Harvest is to make a bid to buy 100% of salmon processor Morpol. Marine Harvest today (17 December) announced it had struck a deal to acquire 48.5% of Morpol for NOK937.6m (US$167m) and said it would launch ...
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US based health insurer UnitedHealth has reported an increase in its profits by 23% with net earnings of $1.56bn, or $1.50 a share for the third quarter that ended on 30 September 2012, up from $1.27bn, or $1.17 a share, a year earlier. ...
Inmet Mining Corporation which last month rejected USD 4.9 billion takeover bid from a Canadian rival has announced 27% increase in reserves at its massive Cobre Panama copper project in Central America. The Toronto based miner said that ...
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Research In Motion (RIM) on Thursday posted a net loss of $235 million for the second quarter on revenues of $2.9 billion. The earnings report came two days after the company said its subscriber base had increased to 80 million. The ...
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Sprint Nextel has offered US $2.1 billion, or $2.90 a share, for the nearly one-half interest in mobile broadband firm Clearwire that the company doesn’t already own. Sprint, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
The government lacks a clear evidence-based policy on whether or not to charge for data and should investigate the economic benefits of making all data free, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said in its report on the government's ...
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Mining Weekly reported that the Cameroon government has signed off on the development of the Mbalam iron ore project inking the Mbalam Convention with ASX listed Sundance Resources. The convention underpins an agreement between Sundance ...
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Euro 2012 has gripped not only Europe over the past few weeks,but has the world over supporting their favourite teams and predicting who they think will win the day's match. The group stages have come to an end,and the competition has ...
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GF Automotive, a Corporate Group of Georg Fischer will further enlarge its existing plants in China and focus in Europe on its iron and aluminum die casting foundries. The aluminum sand casting business with two foundries in Friedrichshafen ...
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As announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics, total iron ore inventory at thirty major ports in China amounted to 77.83 million tonne, declining by 2.83 million tonne WoW, the 6 consecutive WoW decrease and down 19.07 million tonne ...
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Quest Minerals has launched a share purchase plan to increase funding to develop its core projects the Perenjori Iron Ore project and Victory Bore. The plan is priced at USD 0.008 which is a 17% discount to the market, which ...
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Another roller coaster year for the ISX is drawing to a close. By the middle of May, the Rabee Securities RSISX index had fallen 24% from its early October 2011 peak. Since then, the market has staged a dramatic rebound. As of December 8, ...
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AAP reported that shares in Sundance Resources are expected come under downwards pressure when they resume trading, as the prospect of a takeover deal with Hanlong Mining appears even more remote. Sundance shares were placed in a trading ...
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With the continued strengthening of the engineering and construction machinery industry as a whole climbed the situation,tungsten ore crusher,zinc sulfide crusher showed a good momentum of development.With the strong support of the 12th ...