Liquidity Services Bids for Billions
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The surplus merchandise market is huge -- and Liquidity Services is ready to take a bite.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market  bid $3.7 billion for Nordic bourse owner OMX  on Friday as it set its sights on expanding beyond the U.S. market and adds to a wave of stock market consolidation.
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A major Chinese insurer has announced plans to raise up to $22 billion (euro15.0 billion) for acquisitions at a time when U.S. and European banks, battered by mortgage losses, want infusions of Asian capital to replenish their balance sheets.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs  has  made a bid approach of about 700 million pounds ($1.4 billion)  for reinsurance broker Benfield , the Daily Telegraph  said on Friday.
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New evidence of damage wrought by the U.S. mortgage sector surfaced in the United States and Europe on Wednesday while banks demanded a record amount of cash at a euro zone money market auction.
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Some suggest that excess liquidity could threaten the world's economy.
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Spate of billion-dollar deals is prompting midsize IT security providers to offer themselves up as buyout candidates.
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Pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. launched a $26 billion bid Monday for its larger competitor Caremark Rx Inc., potentially scuttling a competing offer from drug chain CVS/pharmacy.
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Multi-bank currency trading platform  FXall has launched a money markets service, the company said on  Wednesday.
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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised its bid for the Chicago Board of Trade to $11 billion, the third increase in a three-month contest with Intercontinental Exchange, as it tries to build the world's largest futures market.
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EUROPEâS biggest defence contractors will have the chance to bid for a $23 billion (Â£12 billion) air refuelling contract for the US Air Force that has been withdrawn from Boeing.
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Lazard, the 156-year-old investment bank, aims to raise up to $850m (Â£440m) in an initial public offering, it revealed last night.
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A bid on the largest portion of public wireless airwaves, now being auctioned by the federal government, reached $4.7 billion on Thursday, triggering a provision to allow any device or software to work on that spectrum.
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The Motley Fool - Leverage buyouts (LBOs) -- in which management borrows large amounts of money to buy a company and take it private -- have traditionally been for brick-and-mortar companies. But with billions flowing into private equity firms, they're are now targeting software companies as well. The latest: the $1.3 billion LBO of enterprise software developer Intergraph (Nasdaq: INGR - News). However, given the deal's valuation, there may be more bidders coming to the table.
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The Fed makes billions of dollars available to banks in an auction in a bid to ease credit-crunch concerns.
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Oracle said it had raised its bid for for the bulk of Indian banking software firm iflex Solutions to 1.3 billion dollars in what was its final offer.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - Private equity and trade buyers are lining up bids for Dutch retailer Ahold's  3 billion euro ($3.8 billion) U.S. Foodservice division, British newspaper The Business reported on Sunday.