ADC to buy Andrew Corp. for $2 billion - MarketWatch (Stock Trading)

ADC to buy Andrew Corp. for $2 billion - MarketWatch

ADC to buy Andrew Corp. for $2 billion
MarketWatch -50 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — ADC Telecom said Wednesday it will acquire Andrew Corp. for $2 billion in stock, a move that would more than double ADC's sales and strengthen its roster of wireless-networking products.
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Tribune Co. to Buy Back Up to 25% of Its Shares - New York Times


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Tribune Co. to Buy Back Up to 25% of Its Shares
New York Times -12 hours ago
The Tribune Company - publisher of The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and Newsday -nnounced yesterday that it would buy back up to 25 percent of its shares at a potential cost of more than $2 billion.
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FBI calls off Hoffa search - Milford Times


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FBI calls off Hoffa search
Milford Times -2 hours ago
The FBI came up empty-handed in its latest search for Jimmy Hoffa, but a 75-year-old convict whose tip sent agents to a Milford Township horse farm probably won t.
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Business notebook - Boston Globe


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Business notebook
Boston Globe -6 hours ago
Stock offering: Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Lexington developer of drugs that fight infections, said it plans to offer $275 million in debt.
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Toyota announces Prius recall - San Jose Mercury News


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Toyota announces Prius recall
San Jose Mercury News -5 hours ago
Toyota Motor said Tuesday that it planned to begin a global voluntary recall of nearly 320,000 of its hot-selling Prius gasoline-electric hybrid sedans to repair a potentially faulty steering system component.
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Wall Street vet to lead Treasury - Detroit Free Press


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Detroit Free Press -5 hours ago
President George W. Bush listens as Henry Paulson speaks at the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday. Paulson was nominated to succeed John Snow as Treasury secretary.
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Second bidder emerges for Marsh chain - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette


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Second bidder emerges for Marsh chain
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette -7 hours ago
The stock of financially troubled Marsh Supermarkets jumped 21 percent on Tuesday after word that a second bidder made a higher offer to buy out the company.
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Stock Futures Signal Rebound - ABC News


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J. Ericson Heyke IV, of the Helfant Group Inc., talks on the telephone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, May 30, 2006.
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UPDATE 1-US Midwest May business activity grows strongly - Reuters

UPDATE 1-US Midwest May business activity grows strongly
Reuters -31 minutes ago
Business activity in the US Midwest expanded at a faster rate than expected in May, with new orders and hiring bouncing back from weak April levels.
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GM gets Wagoner help from Asian unit - Globe and Mail


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Globe and Mail -7 hours ago
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. yesterday named the president of its Asia-Pacific operations to head its struggling North American division, taking over day-to-day operations from chief executive officer Rick Wagoner.
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Ghana : Millions die from tobacco-related illnesses - African News Dimension


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Information shows that tobacco use continues to expand most rapidly in the developing world, where half of tobacco-related deaths occur.
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US, Vietnam sign trade deal to put Hanoi in WTO - Washington Post


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Former enemies Vietnam and the United States solidified peacetime ties by signing a new trade deal on Wednesday in the historic palace where communist tanks ended the war in 1975.
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Standard Life to float - Channel 4 News


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Standard Life is ending 80 years of mutual ownership after an historic and landslide vote by its members. More than 1.5 million members voted 98 per cent in favour of plans for a stock market flotation.
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EU passengers could face long queues to enter US after ruling - Times Online


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The European Union and the United States today vowed to strike a new deal allowing European airliners to transfer passenger data to US authorities, after the European Court of Justice today ruled the existing deal illegal.
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Tiffany 1Q profit rises 7.7 percent - BusinessWeek


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BusinessWeek -3 hours ago
MAY. 31 7:54 AM ET Jewelry and luxury goods retailer Tiffany& Co. said Wednesday that first-quarter earnings grew 7.7 percent, as double-digit percentage growth in international sales outpaced a sluggish domestic sales performance.
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Crude Oil Falls First Time in a Week on Reduced Iran Concern - Bloomberg


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Crude Oil Falls First Time in a Week on Reduced Iran Concern
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Crude oil fell for the first time in a week as Iran's oil minister said that he doesn't believe the United Nations will enact sanctions on his country, the fourth- largest oil producer.
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