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...INDICATORS Merger 2.0 A U.S. judge ruled that softwaremaker Oracle can proceed with its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft, rejecting U.S. antitrust authorities' bid to block a deal. E.U. officials are still studying the proposed takeover...
...This time the voters know Bush. Will that help or hurt his re-election bid...
...party's mighty electoral machine to win the 2007 presidential election himself. Chirac hasn't yet said if he'll run for a third term. For months he's tried to prevent Sarkozy from taking over the ump, even threatening to fire him if he persisted in his bid. But it was Chirac, not Sarkozy, who put out the news. As Sarkozy's announcement was imminent last week, Chirac pre-empted him to leak confirmation after a private meeting between the two men, which was described as "warm" by Elysée officials. They said Chirac fully backed the Sarkozy...
COVER STORY MAKING UP MINDS This time around, American voters know President Bush. Will that help or hurt his re-election bid? VIEWPOINTS: Krauthammer and Kinsley face off on the President INTERVIEW: Bush speaks out INTERVIEW: Laura's turn 9/11 FOLLOW-UP: How is New York doing three years later...
...fact, SMFG made the offer to UFJ management and not directly to shareholders, meaning the bid is not yet truly hostile. But it does ratchet up the pressure on MTFG and UFJ, which has already faced criticism for hastily dismissing previous SMFG overtures, to fully disclose the terms of their offer. Although UFJ has said it is "prudently scrutinizing" SMFG's latest bid, analysts do not expect the MTFG deal to be aborted. "It's hard to imagine that UFJ will switch partners at this point," says Nozomu Kunishige, an analyst at BNP Paribas. Still, Nishikawa has another option: mount...