MetLife to Buy Travelers for $11.5 Bln
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MetLife Inc. MET.N on Monday agreed  to acquire Travelers Life & Annuity from Citigroup Inc. C.N  for $11.5 billion, bolstering its product reach while sounding  Citigroup's retreat from the one-stop financial supermarket  concept.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd  has agreed to buy the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp for at least $1.5 billion cash to expand its network and increase access to U.S. Midwest markets.
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U.S.-Norwegian Royal Caribbean Cruises   RCL.OL RCL.N has agreed to buy Spain's biggest cruise and   tour operator, Pullmantur S.A., for 700 million euros ($898.5   million), sending its shares sharply higher on Thursday.
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Sabre Holdings Corp. , owner of the Travelocity Web site, on Tuesday said it has agreed to be sold to private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group  for $32.75 per share in cash, or about $4.45 billion.
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Wireless service provider MetroPCS Communications Inc  said on Tuesday it proposed buying competitor Leap Wireless International Inc  for more than $5 billion in stock.
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MetroPCS Communications, the mobile telephone company that sells only prepaid service, offered to buy Leap Wireless International for about $5.5 billion.
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The cost of riding Metro would rise an average of 45 cents a trip next year under a proposal being considered by General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. as the transit agency seeks to close a $173 million shortfall and relieve overcrowded trains and buses, sources said.
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Canadian insurer Great-West Lifeco Inc.  said on Thursday it will buy ailing money manager Putnam Investments from Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.  for $3.9 billion in a bid to gain a key foothold in the U.S. asset management market.
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Brokerage announces $11.5 billion in additional write-downs for the fourth quarter.
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CHICAGOâTravel and real estate heavyweight Cendant Corp. yesterday said it will buy travel website Orbitz Inc. for about $1.25 billion (US), making it the second-largest competitor in the online travel industry.
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NEW YORK, August 26 (New Ratings) - BlackRock Inc (BLK.NYS), a leading US-based fixed-income asset management company, has reportedly agreed to buy State Street Research &amp; Management Company, a unit of MetLife Inc, for $375 million in a cash and stock
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AirTran Holdings Inc.  said on Wednesday it had offered to buy rival Midwest Air Group Inc. .
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Insurance company MetLife Inc.  on Wednesday said it expects to report $1.10 to $1.20 a share in fourth-quarter operating earnings, in line with the average analyst forecast.
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MetLife Inc. on Monday agreed to acquire Travelers Life & Annuity from Citigroup Inc. for &#36;11.5 billion, bolstering its product reach while sounding Citigroup's retreat from the one-stop financial supermarket concept.
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Sabre Holdings Corp. , owner of  the Travelocity Web site, is expected to announce on Tuesday  that it has agreed to a takeover offer of $32.75 per share, or  about $4.3 billion, from private equity firms Texas Pacific  Group  and Silver Lake Partners, according to a source  familiar with the situation.
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Amadeus Global Travel Distribution SA has agreed to be bought by two British private investment funds for about 4.34 billion euros (&#36;5.74 billion), the company's main shareholders said Wednesday in a filing with market regulators.
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By DAVID KOENIG  DALLAS - Sabre Holdings Corp., parent of the online travel-booking service Travelocity.com and a leading distributor of airline reservations, said Tuesday it is being acquired by private-equity groups for about $4.5 billion.