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		<title><![CDATA[LSE Glitch Did Not Hinder Gains -TR Data]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane BairdLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Rival operators failed to benefit from Thursday's system failure at the London Stock Exchange, which gained market share despite halting trading for several hours due to technical glitches, Thomson Reuters data showed.The LSE's market share rose by more than 5 percentage points to 62.85...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Black Friday - lots of buyers for Ratiopharm!]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed sale of Ratiopharm is hotting up and, according to the  Financial Times , a former chairman of the German generics drugmaker, has linked up with a private equity firm to join the auction.  The newspaper says that Claudio Albrecht has joined forces with EQT, the private...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[LSE Stops Trading For More Than 3 Hours]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane BairdLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - The London Stock Exchange LSE halted trading for more than three hours on Thursday because of technical glitches, while it placed all order-driven securities in an auction call period.Trading resumed at 2 p.m., following an auction call period that started shortly after 10:30 a.m."Our...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:15:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Informa in Talks to Buy Springer Unit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Simon Meads and Kate HoltonLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Informa INF is in talks to buy Springer Science and Business Media in a 2.6 billion euros (2.35 billion pound) deal including debt that would boost its more resilient academic publishing unit but could require a new rights issue to fund...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:45:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ciena Beats NSN to Buy Nortel Ops For $769 Mln]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tarmo Virki and Anupreeta DasHELSINKI/NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Ciena Corp will buy the optical networking and carrier ethernet business of bankrupt Nortel for $769 million after it trumped Nokia Siemens Networks in a three-day auction.The deal will more than double Ciena's turnover, prompting the market to focus on how...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:45:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Devon Energy to Divest Its Offshore Presence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ockham Research submits:  When Peter Lynch coined the now famous term &#8220;invest in what you know&#8221;, he was thinking in terms of stock selection.  However, this term can be broadly applied to what Devon Energy DVN announced Tuesday.  Devon has decided to realign their capital investment focus...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:12:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Media Deals I'd Like To See Happen In 2010]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.This brutal year in M&A is mercifully winding down. The global credit squeeze, deep recession, and shrinking valuations have kept deals in check. But with the economy rebooting and many big...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stocks Eye Retailers as Jobless Ranks Grow]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edward KrudyNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - As unemployment in the United States edges above 10 percent, anxious investors will look to earnings reports from major retailers for signs of life in the beaten-up consumer.Comments from Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT, the world's largest retailer, as well as from a host of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:45:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stocks Eye Retailers as Jobless Ranks Swell]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edward KrudyNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - As unemployment in the United States edges above 10 percent, anxious investors will look to earnings reports from major retailers for signs of life in the beaten-up consumer.Comments from Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT, the world's largest retailer, as well as from a host of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scripps Books Travel Channel in $975 Million Deal [MediaMemo]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's official: Scripps Networks Interactive SNI has won the Travel Channel auction. In a deal that values the channel at $975 million, Scripps will will acquire a majority interest in the property while current owner Cox retains a 35 percent stake. News Corp. NWS, among others, had been bidding for...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalive does not meet Canadian ownership and control requirements and cannot therefore set up shop as Canada's fourth national cellphone company, the CRTC says. The regulator on Thursday found that the Toronto-based company, which is backed by Egypt's Orascom and had plans to launch service in Toronto and Calgary this...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[MYER'S bankers are bracing for a last-minute flurry of institutional applications to buy shares in the company's initial public offering, which closes this afternoon. The two-day bookbuild process, a silent auction in which institutions apply to purchase stock at a price they nominate, follows a three-week retail offer open only...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Matalan weighs £1.5bn sale]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matalan, the privately owned discount retailer, is weighing a £1.5bn sale after a number of expressions of interest. Private equity group CVC is among the parties that has approached Matalan, which was taken private by its founder and controlling shareholder John Hargreaves amid acrimony with institutional investors and non-executive directors...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Buybacks and grand plans are all good news for WH Smith]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debenhams, DSG International and J. Sainsbury may have tapped the stock market for cash, but WH Smith is handing it back. The FTSE 250 newspaper and stationery retailer used yesterday's full-year results to announce that it will return £35 million to shareholders through a share buyback — in addition to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wall St Climbs as Alcoa's Profit Increases Optimism]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as a surprising quarterly profit from Alcoa Inc AA got third-quarter earnings off to a strong start. Alcoa gained 1.1 percent to $14.35 and rose as high as $15.10, a day after the Dow component posted its first...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Times    Alistair Darling acts on bank bonuses: The Chanceller of the Exchequer will be summoning the remuneration committee chairmen of the big four banks to a meeting this week to warn them they must adhere to guidelines established agreed by world leaders at the G20 summit...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ebay sells stake in Skype]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebay on Tuesday reached an agreement to unload 65 per cent of its Skype internet calling service to a group of private investors in a deal it valued at $2.75bn, bringing the curtain down on a strategic mistake which clouded the final years at the company of Meg Whitman, Ebay's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:01:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bankruptcy is hard for chief to digest]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This week's Chapter 11 filing by Reader's Digest Association could hardly have come at a worse time for Ripplewood Holdings' founder and chief executive Timothy Collins.The collapse of the venerable magazine publisher , taken private for $2.8bn at the peak of the debt bubble in March 2007 by a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bell and Telus will merge within 2 years, RBC predicts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A merger between Bell and Telus, two of Canada's largest phone and internet companies, is looking "very likely" within the next two years, according to a report from RBC Capital Markets. The impending launch of new cellphone companies, the continuing trend of customers ditching their landlines, and the saturation of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Veterans of '90s U.S. bank bailout see opportunity in current one]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/news-analysis/veterans-90s-bank-bailout-opportunity/5696/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A tight-knit group of former senior U.S. government officials who were central players in the savings and loan bailout of the 1990s are seeking to capitalize on the latest economic meltdown, enjoying a surge in new business in their work now as private lawyers, investors and lobbyists. With $700 billion in...]]></description>
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