KKR buying Dollar General for $6.9 bln
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  said on Monday it will acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share, or about $6.9 billion.
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Teck Cominco, a mining company and metals producer, has agreed to buy Aur Resources for 4.1 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash and stock.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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NEW YORK -- To better adapt to the electronic trading trend, Citigroup Inc. yesterday said it is buying Automated Trading Desk for about $680 million in cash and stock.
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Kmart Holding Corp. will sell 18 stores to Atlanta-based The Home Depot Inc. for $271 million. Home Depot had previously agreed to buy up to 24 Kmart (Nasdaq: KMRT) stores for a price of up to $365 million.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering.
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A consortium led by private-equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group is nearing a deal worth close to $45 billion for a Texas energy giant in what would be the largest leveraged buyout ever, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.
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U.S. stocks to watch on Monday include  Family Dollar Stores Inc., Staples Inc., Microsoft Corp., and  General Electric Co.
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Shareholders of Meta Group (META:Nasdaq - news - research) got a late Christmas present Monday when Gartner (IT:NYSE - news - research) said it would buy the research shop for $10 a share, or $162 million.
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  said on Monday that it will acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share in cash, or about $6.9 billion.
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US buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is buying Masonite International (MHM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (MHM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Canadian-based maker of building products, in an all-cash deal worth C$3.1
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A new Goldman Sachs Group  stock hedge fund could be launched with more than $6 billion, with some investors expecting the fund to attract as much $10 billion, people familiar with the fund said.
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SYDNEY/NEW YORK  - Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday that it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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Canada's Goldcorp Inc. G.TO GG.N   said on Thursday it will acquire U.S.-based Glamis Gold Ltd.   GLG.TO GLG.N for about $8.6 billion in stock, a deal that   will catapult it firmly into the ranks of senior gold   producers.
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U.S. investors Carl Icahn and Warren  Lichtenstein are preparing a tender offer for KT&amp;G Corp. , a  South Korean brokerage said, sending shares of the country&#039;s  top tobacco maker up over 6 percent on Friday.
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Is this deal picture-perfect for investors?
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KKR Financial Holdings ,  the listed affiliate of private equity group Kohlberg Kravis  Roberts & Co , has delayed repayment of debt backed by  mortgage securities for the second time and begun a new round  of talks with creditors.