| | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines' expected bid to buy a Pennsylvania oil refinery has had people in both industries joking that a company from the money-losing airline sector would be right at home in the money-losing world of East Coast refining. | | | | (Reuters) - Pipeline operator Energy Transfer Partners LP said it will buy Sunoco Inc for $5.3 billion in stock and cash as part of its plan to focus on transporting more crude oil and refined products amid falling natural gas prices. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble Inc's digital and college businesses, valuing them at $1.7 billion. Shares of Barnes & Noble jumped 79 percent. | | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Cellphone maker Nokia is in talks to sell its UK luxury subsidiary Vertu, which hand makes some of the world's most expensive mobile phones, a source familiar with the company's strategy said on Monday. | | | | | DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar has signed a deal to co-invest $250 million with Barclays' natural resources private equity investment unit, underlining the gas-rich Gulf state's desire to plough some of its commodity wealth back into the sector. | | | | | (Reuters) - Hologic Inc said it would acquire Gen-Probe Inc for about $3.75 billion in cash to expand its diagnostic business. | | | | | (Reuters) - Credit card processor First Data Corp, a unit of private equity firm KKR , bought the remaining 30 percent stake in payment processor OmniPay from FEXCO. | | | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland's mergers and acquisitions (M&A) business will be spun off into a boutique advisory firm run by some of its current staff, the bank's chief executive for the Middle East and Africa confirmed on Monday. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Embattled law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf said on Sunday it removed its former chairman from various leadership positions amid a probe by the Manhattan district attorney and said that talks with rival firm Greenberg Traurig about a potential transaction ended with no deal. | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity group Terra Firma is to buy Britain's biggest care home operator Four Seasons Health Care in a deal worth 825 million pounds ($1.34 billion), hoping to benefit from the long-term growth market in care for the elderly. | | | | | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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