Word: mergers
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Anderson Cooper The rising CNN star (who also works for 60 Minutes Wednesday) could be in the running, especially if the rumored CNN-CBS merger moves ahead. --By Sean Gregory
...reversed: German officials have expressed concern about the headquarters of the exchange moving to London, hurting Frankfurt's status as a financial center - a concern shared by Deutsche Börse's union, which fears job losses. But a spokesman for the Finance Ministry said the government supports the merger without restrictions. Why so much fuss over who owns which stock exchange? After all, the days of crowded trading pits where dealers scream out prices are mostly gone. Now the deals are done on computer terminals in quiet back offices. No matter who buys the L.S.E., most investors and companies...
...better line than that, he may end up in the doghouse. Holiday Hookups A rash of late-year megamergers struck the U.S., including health-care firm Johnson & Johnson's $25.4 billion takeover of Guidant; the long-awaited $10.3 billion Oracle-PeopleSoft marriage; phone provider Sprint's $35 billion merger with Nextel; and the uniting of software companies Symantec and Veritas in an all-stock deal worth around $12.5 billion...
...business, and culture/structure." But in the eight months since, Van der Veer, 57, has done a lot more than those jotted notes suggest. He has radically overhauled Shell's management and governance structure. After months of discussions with regulators and institutional investors, Shell announced in November the full merger of its two parts into a single company with a single board and one chief executive. Shell has been fined by regulators and still faces numerous lawsuits, but even the most critical investors are applauding the speed and boldness with which the CEO faced the crisis. "He deserves...
...investment-banking and bond areas, brought the bank's IT management in-house and initiated a risk-management review, while instilling his relentless bottom-line ethic throughout the business. It may take some time for Dimon to deliver the promised $3 billion of annual cost savings from the merger. But by melding his old bank's retail, credit-card and small-business strengths with JPMorgan Chase's investment-banking and asset-management prowess, Dimon has turned what some called Citigroup West into a colossus that can give Citi, as Dimon says, "a run for its money...