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*Citigroup climbing back up league tables. NEW YORK, April 15- In the summer of 2010, senior executives at Citigroup Inc told the board of directors the bank needed to hire more dealmakers to have any chance of snagging underwriting assignments and rich takeover advisory fees.
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*Thermo Fisher in $13.6 bln Life Tech takeover. *Dish Network bids for Sprint Nextel. Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, made a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, challenging the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp, while Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc struck a $13.6 billion deal to buy Life Technologies Corp..
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April 15- Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, a move that could thwart the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp..
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April 15- Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, has offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, a move that could thwart the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp.. The deal, if approved, might also resolve a struggle between Sprint and Dish for control of wireless provider Clearwire Corp.
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*Sprint shares up 14.5 pct premarket. April 15- Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, a move that could thwart the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp..
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*Sprint shares up 13 pct premarket. April 15- Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider, offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, a move that could thwart the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp..
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Dish Network has made an informal offer to acquire Sprint Nextel for $7 per share in a deal worth $25.5 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, reports the "Squawk Box News crew.
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LONDON, April 14- Commodities group Glencore could be forced to sacrifice a slice of copper production in order to secure a green light from China this week for its planned $32 billion takeover of miner Xstrata.
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*EU commission vice president backs Aperam consortium's bid. LONDON, April 12- A consortium led by Luxembourg- based stainless steel maker Aperam is the front runner for the acquisition of a stainless steel plant in Terni, Italy, market sources said this week.
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German investor Joh A Benckiser (JAB) is to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee in a 7.5-billion-euro ($9.8 billion) deal to create a global hot drinks empire.
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*No decision yet made on sale, but bank open to offers. NEW YORK, April 11- Goldman Sachs has explored a sale of its metals warehousing business Metro International LLC, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, just three years after the investment bank bought the firm for $550 million.
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EL PASO, Tex./ STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga., April 10- The Federal Reserve should start cutting back on purchases of housing bonds as soon as its next meeting, one top Fed official said on Wednesday, just hours after another said talk of trimming the U.S. central bank's bond buys was "premature."
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April 10- Ora.TV, the fledgling online digital TV network backed by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, has acquired television production company Stick Figure Productions in order to expand its content. The show can been viewed through Ora.TV or on Hulu, the online video streaming service controlled by News Corp and Walt Disney.
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Scott Sperling, THL Partners co-president, reveals details of his company's acquisition of private information technology company CompuCom.
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Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson struck a deal on Monday to buy Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV business, which makes software used by phone companies to deliver television over the Internet.
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SYDNEY, April 9- Australian surfwear company Billabong International Ltd will enter 10 days of exclusive talks with a consortium led by its former U.S. boss after the group cut its indicative takeover proposal by 45 percent to $300 million.
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SYDNEY, April 9- Australia's Billabong International Ltd said on Tuesday a consortium led by its former U.S. boss, Paul Naude, had cut its takeover bid for the struggling surf wear company by 45 percent to $300 million.
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MELBOURNE, April 9- Australia's Sundance Resources Ltd will find it tough to fund its $4.7 billion iron ore project in Africa after the collapse of a takeover by Hanlong Group, the fourth mining deal China has pulled since commodity prices fell last year.
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MELBOURNE, April 9- Shares in Australian resource firm Sundance Resources plunged 56 percent after it terminated a $1.4 billion takeover by private Chinese firm Hanlong Group, threatening prospects for its key asset, a large iron ore project in Africa. Michael Evans, an analyst at CIMB in Sydney, said the share plunge was an overreaction.
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General Electric agreed to buy oilfield services provider Lufkin Industries to expand its profitable oil and gas business.