MADRID—Spain's government is prepared to inject €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support requested Friday by troubled lender Bankia SA, the bank said Friday, in what would represent the largest bank bailout in the country's history.
With the flip of a switch on March 3, the world's largest airline, United Continental Holdings Inc., took its biggest step toward fusing the operations of two of the nation's largest carriers: It merged the United and Continental ...
My colleague, Susan Carey, has an in-depth article on merger turbulence and the computer snafus at United Airlines, focusing on its impact on elite-level frequent fliers and disclosing problems in the airline's pricing system that has hurt ...
When Lehman Brothers led a leveraged buyout of apartment-company Archstone valued at $22 billion in 2007, it had a code name for the deal: "Project Easy Living."
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Things just got a lot worse for Talbots Inc. and its shareholders. After months of fighting off a buyout offer from Sycamore Partners, the women’s clothing retailer succumbed earlier this month, reaching a tentative ...
MADRID (MarketWatch) — Spanish government bonds tumbled Friday, sending yields higher, rattled by reports that one of Spain’s autonomous regions has asked for assistance from the government because it can’t get debt financing from the ...
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Menlo Ventures may have turned down Facebook, but another technology investment has paid off nicely for the venture capitalists. Last night's $151.9 million deal in which Bazaarvoice purchased rival PowerReviews paid Menlo three times on its ...
Boon Sim, global head of Credit Suisse Group AG's mergers business, is leaving the bank to head up the North American operations of Singapore-based investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., Credit Suisse confirmed Wednesday.
An infrastructure wish list compiled by New Jersey universities details hundreds of upgrades the colleges hope to fund through a higher-education bond under discussion in Trenton.
Read about milestones United Continental Holdings has completed in order to become one company.
TOKYO (MarketWatch) — The Tokyo Stock Exchange plans to tout the attractiveness of Japanese companies to overseas investors as part of efforts to increase its trading volumes, Managing Director Hironaga Miyama said in an interview.
Eaton Corp., betting on booming global sales of energy-saving products, agreed to buy electrical-equipment maker Cooper Industries PLC for about $11.8 billion in cash-and-stock, by far its biggest purchase.