KKR files plans for $2.2bn float
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Listing allows firm, founded by cousins Henry Kravis and George Roberts, to match their great rival Blackstone, which completed its IPO at the top of the market in 2007
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Lehman file rocks Wall Street
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
The fallout from the report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers shook Wall Street and London as US officials grilled banks about off balance-sheet trades and questions were raised over the City’s role in the company’s attempts to cover up its problems
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Xbox regains lead in console battle
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console outsold Nintendo’s Wii in the US last month for the first time in more than two years
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Twitter faces a battle for tweets
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
A Japanese website called Ameba Now is one of the first signs of micro-blogging website Twitter’s vulnerability to competition. The rival has reached 1m visitors in the three months since its launch
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CF Industries buys Terra for $4.7bn
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
The first battle of the ‘fertilizer wars’ closed after US-based CF Industries closed a deal to buy US rival Terra for $4.7bn in cash and shares
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Yara refuses to raise $4.1bn Terra bid
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Norwegian fertiliser producer says it will not increase its all-cash $4.1bn offer for US Terra, paving the way for US CF Industries‘ rival $4.7bn cash-and-shares offer to acquire the company
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Promethean and Supergroup set for £400m listings
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Fashion label Supergroup and education group Promethean to float at mid-range of their mooted price ranges as sentiment towards new issues recovers
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Recession takes toll on Aga cooker sales
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Aga Rangemaster narrowly avoided making a loss in 2009 as the recession hit sales of its upmarket cookers
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KKR offering values private equity group at $7.5bn
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Listing allows firm, founded by cousins Henry Kravis and George Roberts, to match their great rival Blackstone, which completed its IPO at the top of the market in 2007
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Lehman report blames top executives
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
A one-year probe into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found ‘credible evidence’ that top executives, including the former chief Dick Fuld, approved misleading financial statements and used an ‘accounting gimmick’ to flatter results
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Data theft hits 24,000 HSBC clients
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
An ex-employee of HSBC stole the details of 24,000 clients from a branch in Switzerland, in a hugely embarrassing theft of data for which the bank apologised unreservedly
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US takeover defences come tumbling down
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Pressure from US corporate governance activists is forcing companies to dismantle poison pill measures designed to protect them from unwanted takeover attention
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Sir Brian Pitman, ex-Lloyds chairman, dies aged 78
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman and chief executive of Lloyds TSB and one of the most respected bankers of his generation, has died suddenly at the age of 78
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India’s ONGC and Russia in energy pact talks
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects to help cement an energy partnership
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BA ground staff threaten to strike
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
British Airways, already threatened with strikes by cabin crew in a long-running row over cost-cutting, is facing a second potential dispute with ground staff over changes to working practices
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Recession takes toll on Aga cooker sales
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Aga Rangemaster narrowly avoided making a loss in 2009 as the recession hit sales of its upmarket cookers
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BA cabin crew reveal strike dates
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
The UK carrier will be hit by seven days of strikes later this month after talks between the airline and unions to avoid industrial action over cost-cutting measures broke down
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Xbox outsells the Wii console in the US
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console outsold Nintendo’s Wii in the US last month for the first time in more than two years, but the figures are unlikely to mean a reversal of fortunes for the two videogame machines
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Liberty confirms bid approaches
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Designer brand and fashion retailer confirms it has been approached by possible bidders but declines to give update on possible sale and leaseback of its Regent Street store
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Yara refuses to raise $4.1bn Terra bid
By Financial Times on March 12, 2010
Norwegian fertiliser producer says it will not increase its all-cash $4.1bn offer for US Terra, paving the way for US CF Industries‘ rival $4.7bn cash-and-shares offer to acquire the company
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