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LONDON, June 17- European shares recovered on Monday as talk of takeover activity in the telecoms sector helped stock markets claw back losses suffered in the previous week. The STOXX Europe 600 Telecoms Index was the best-performing sector, rising 1.6 percent after speculation that AT&T was interested in Spain's Telefonica, which was denied by Telefonica.
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April 27- Talks are on hold to merge drugmakers Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc and Actavis Inc in a deal that would have created a healthcare giant, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters on Saturday.
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Ralph Schlosstein,Evercore Partners; and Blair Effron Centerview Partners, explain how smaller M&A firms are taking a larger share of the market away from bigger firms.
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"I think we are in a very gentle trend upward," said Ralph Schlosstein, Evercore Partners, providing insight on what's happening in the world of mergers and acquisitions, with Blair Effron Centerview Partners.
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RICHARDSON, Texas, April 24- MetroPCS Communications Inc shareholders voted Wednesday to approve a merger with No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider T-Mobile USA, after T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG sweetened its terms under pressure from activist shareholders.
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RICHARDSON, Texas, April 24- MetroPCS Communications Inc shareholders voted Wednesday to approve a merger with No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider T-Mobile USA, after T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG sweetened its terms under pressure from activist shareholders.
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BRUSSELS, April 24- EU antitrust regulators will examine IntercontinentalExchange Inc's $8.2 billion takeover of NYSE Euronext in line with a request from the exchange operators themselves, a spokesman for the European Commission said on Wednesday.
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*Mitsui Eng jumps 13.6 pct on report of merger talks Kawasaki Heavy. TOKYO, April 22- The Nikkei average climbed 1.9 percent to its highest close in almost five years on Monday, as the yen weakened after the Group of 20 leading economies stopped short of criticising Japan's expansionary monetary policies.
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LONDON, April 19- European shares staged a small technical rebound on Friday, helped by merger activity in the mining sector, but a regional benchmark marked its worst weekly loss since November following weak economic data.
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LONDON, April 19- Merger activity in the mining sector helped European shares stage a small rebound on Friday, but a regional benchmark recorded its worst weekly loss since November as the economic outlook deteriorated.
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Activist investor Nelson Peltz has amassed large stakes in both PepsiCo and Mondelez International, sources told CNBC on Friday, which total a combined $2.7 billion.
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NEW YORK, April 17- Proxy advisory firm ISS said on Wednesday that MetroPCS Communications Inc shareholders should vote in favor of the wireless service provider's merger with T-Mobile USA because the proposed terms of the deal were sweetened.
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April 17- Bank of America Corp's global wealth and investment management division, largely composed of its Merrill Lynch retail operations, was a bright spot for the No. 2 U.S. bank, which reported lower-than-expected overall results on Wednesday.
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American Airlines is apologizing to customers for the inconvenience of their reservation system outage today, with CNBC's Hampton Pearson.
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American Airlines is experiencing a reservation system outage and has grounded all its flights, with CNBC's Hampton Pearson.
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American Airlines is reporting a system-wide outage across the U.S. that is delaying some flights, and hurting the "check-in" process, with CNBC's Brian Sullivan.
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BEIJING/ LONDON, April 16- Glencore and Xstrata cleared the final hurdle in their long-running merger plan on Tuesday, when China's Ministry of Commerce conditionally backed the $35 billion deal. Glencore and Xstrata had been waiting for months for China, the biggest buyer of the materials it trades and mines, to give the regulatory the go-ahead.
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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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NEW YORK, April 15- Dish Network Corp has no immediate plans to disrupt Sprint Nextel Corp's deal to buy the shares of Clearwire Corp it does not already own, despite Dish's unsolicited offer for Sprint, a source close to the matter said on Monday.
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Chris King, Stifel Nicolaus, says Dish Network's informal bid to acquire Sprint Nextel for $7 per share in a deal worth $25.5 billion could spark a bidding war.
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MILAN, April 11- Telecom Italia has appointed a panel of directors to consider a proposed tie-up with Hutchison Whampoa which would make the Hong Kong group Telecom Italia's top shareholder in return for merging their local mobile businesses.
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