Bank of America on Monday agreed to buy LaSalle Bank Corp. for $21 billion in a deal that would help the country’s second-biggest bank break into the key Midwest market.
Bank of America (BAC :
51.04, +0.13, +0.3% ) is buying LaSalle, which operates over 400 branches across Illinois, Michigan and Indiana, from ABN Amro (ABN :
49.29, […]

AstraZeneca Plc, the maker of the Nexium ulcer medicine, agreed to buy U.S. biotechnology company MedImmune Inc. for $15.2 billion in cash to gain flu vaccines and an antiviral medication for babies.
Investors in Gaithersburg, Maryland-based MedImmune will get $58 a share, London-based AstraZeneca said today in a Regulatory News Service statement. That’s 21 percent higher […]

Barclays is widely expected to table a 36 euros ($49; £24) a share bid for the Dutch bank ABN Amro on Monday.
The bank had not previously been expected to pay more than 35 euros per share, but is reported to have found additional cost savings and revenues.
If it is successful in the takeover it will […]

Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Executive Council and Chairman of the Dubai Autism Center the Together Again campaign, running throughout the month of April in support of the Dubai Autism Center, got a further boost with a silent auction at Dubai International Financial […]

The following State Governments have announced the sale of 10-year State Development Loans for an aggregate amount of Rs.1,837.000 crore through a yield based auction using multiple price auction method.
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