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Business Day
Ardian to Sell Food Ingredients Maker to Symrise for $1.8 Billion
Symrise, a German maker of flavors and scents, said it had made a binding offer to acquire Diana from the private equity firm Ardian, which was spun off from the French insurer AXA Group last year.
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Business Day
TIAA-CREF to Buy Nuveen Investments for $6.25 Billion
The acquisition of Nuveen will bring the retirement giant’s assets under management to about $800 billion and bolster its mutual fund offerings.
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Business Day
Blackstone and Goldman to Buy Ipreo, a Financial Information Provider
The deal with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is the latest instance of private equity firms buying holdings from one another.
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Business Day
Glencore to Sell Peruvian Mine to Chinese Group for $6 Billion
Glencore Xstrata said it would sell its Las Bambas copper mine in Peru to a group of state-owned Chinese companies. Separately, a Glencore subsidiary is buying Caracal Energy for about $1.3 billion.
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Business Day
Endurance Bids $3.2 Billion for Aspen Insurance
Endurance Specialty Holdings, a provider of casualty and property insurance, made an unsolicited $3.2 billion takeover bid for Aspen Insurance Holdings.
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Citi Profit Exceeds Forecasts
Even as its quarterly profits brightened, Citigroup disclosed that it had found an additional case of fraud at Banamex, its Mexican unit.
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Business Day
Rich Start-Ups Go Back for Another Helping
As investment money continues to pour into Silicon Valley, start-ups already flush with cash are being given sizable additional rounds of venture capital.
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Business Day
Silicon Valley's Funding Feast
Already-rich start-ups are piling on investment dollars. | Earnings season for big banks has begun. | Pooled pensions teeter and fall. | Herbalife shares plunge on news of F.B.I. criminal inquiry.I have stayed with hardware.
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Business Day
Thought Secure, Pooled Pensions Teeter and Fall
Pensions in multiemployer plans were once believed to be extremely reliable, but changing economic circumstances have left vulnerable the pools and the federal insurance plan meant to support them.
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Technology
With Purchase of Drone Maker, Google Sees a Fleet of Satellites
Following in Facebook’s footsteps, Google said Monday that it had purchased Titan Aerospace, the maker of high-altitude drone satellites, which will be used to take photos of the earth and to connect people to the Internet.
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World
Iran Gets an Unlikely Visitor, an American Plane, but No One Seems to Know Why
The presence of a United States-flagged aircraft in Iran is highly unusual these days, especially when it’s owned by a small Utah bank.
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Real Estate
The Million-Dollar Manhattan Apartment
If $1 million is all you can spend, expect slim pickings.
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World
Captain and Two Crew Members Are Arrested in Korean Ferry Sinking
The captain, Lee Jun-seok, 69, was charged with abandoning the boat and its passengers at a time of crisis, among other counts, according to prosecutors.
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Home & Garden
Square Feet: 84. Possessions: 305.
After a heart attack, Dee Williams downsized. Way down.
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Business Day
Cost of Treatment May Influence Doctors
Some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments that they recommend for patients.
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Opinion
Salvation Gets Cheap
The incredible recent decline in the cost of renewable energy, solar power in particular, have improved the economics of climate change.
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World
Deadliest Day: Sherpas Bear Everest’s Risks
An avalanche that left at least 12 dead has focused attention on the Sherpas, skilled high-altitude climbers who put themselves at great risk for the foreign teams that pay them.
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World
Pro-Russian Insurgents Balk at Terms of Pact in Ukraine
A U.S.-backed deal to settle the crisis in eastern Ukraine fell flat but appeared to arrest, at least temporarily, the momentum of separatist unrest in the region.
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Opinion
When the Circus Descends
Right-wing talk radio hosts and left-wing interest groups are teaming up to defeat the most sensible school reform movement in a decade.
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