Mergers & Acquisitions
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UPDATE 1-First Niagara sells $3.1 bln mortgage-backed securities
June 27 - First Niagara Financial Group Inc said it sold $3.1 billion of mortgage-backed securities and used the proceeds to repay short-term debt.
UPDATE 1-Comcast to pay $800,000 to resolve FCC probe
* Closes probe into Comcast standalone broadband services
UPDATE 3-Mexican tycoon Slim scores new win in Europe
* America Movil says will acquire stake as originally planned
Brazil's Equatorial bids for troubled rival Celpa
SAO PAULO, June 27 - Brazilian electricity utility Equatorial Energia placed a formal bid for control of debt-laden power distributor Celpa, according to a securities filing on Wednesday.
News Corp board expected to approve split
June 27 - Rupert Murdoch will oversee one of the most important board meetings of his more than 40-year career on Wednesday afternoon as News Corp directors vote on whether to divide the $60 billion media conglomerate into two separate publicly traded companies.
UPDATE 1-Cigna to buy Arcadian's medicare plans from Humana
June 27 - Cigna Corp said it agreed to buy some Medicare Advantage plans in Texas and Arkansas from health insurer Humana Inc.
UPDATE 2-T-Mobile USA CEO calls it quits after two years
NEW YORK, June 27 - Barely two years after signing on as chief executive with T-Mobile USA, Philipp Humm is leaving the company and will be succeeded on an interim basis by Jim Alling.
Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
June 27 - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S., Canadian and Asian companies were reported by 2000 GMT on Wednesday:
UPDATE 1-Brazil may cancel, pay for 'strategic' mine rights-sources
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 27 - Brazil is considering cancelling some mineral rights in areas considered "strategic" and compensating mining companies for prospecting work done on those claims, high-level Brazilian government and mining industry officials told Reuters.
CORRECTED-Brazil may cancel, pay for 'strategic' mine rights
(Corrects spelling of Potassio do Brasil in 13th paragraph)
- Finance: UPDATE 3-Sunoco, Carlyle near labor deal for Phila. refinery
- Technology: BRIEF-America Movil gets effective control of KPN
- Healthcare: UPDATE 1-Linde bidding to buy Lincare for $3.4 bln-report
- Consumer: UPDATE 2-Shuffle Master drops deal for online poker company
- Energy: UPDATE 3-Court finds Glencore grain unit bribed EU official
- Industrials: Linde bidding to buy Lincare for $3.4 bln - FT
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