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ICE makes audacious $9.9bn offer for CBOT

The consolidation of global exchanges was thrown into flux as the Intercontinental Exchange of Atlanta shocked the financial world by launching an unsolicited $9.9bn offer for the Chicago Board of Trade .

Unions call for G8 action on private equity

Appeal for international task force

Moelis considering leaving UBS

Could signal wider exodus of talent

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Cadbury marked as takeover target

Beverages arm seen as a poison pill

Palestinians form unity government

Israel to continue ostracising PA

Universal offers sale to win bid backing

Song rights disposal to ease BMG deal

Fears over rising eurozone inflation

Core rate highest since Dec 2004

Imperial in €11.5bn bid for Spain’s Altadis

Would create fourth largest tobacco group

China ‘regrets’ US sanctions on Macao bank

BDA accused of laundering money for N Korea

Hutchison arm to pay Essar $415m

Smooths way to clear India deal

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Equity valuations

It’s all very well in practice, but what about in theory? Until recently, the über-pessimists about equities had been forced into this defence. Their techniques have been a poor guide to making money.

European view

Paris and Berlin on slow train to co-operation

European comment

The high-speed line connecting Paris with Munich was launched with all the pomp of a venture described as altering ’the geography of Europe’.

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The Short View: Lessons from the sell-off

John Authers

What do the winners and losers of the last three weeks tell us about the sell-off, and do they point to any bargains, asks John Authers.

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An accountability gap is holding back Japan’s economy

Japan report

Managements’ ambivalent attitude to shareholders leads to a poor return on corporate capital – and the state is no help.

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The neocons have been consigned to history

Jacob weisberg

Cheney has been proved wrong: invasion did not catalyse a new Mid-East; unilateralism has reduced US power, says Jacob Weisberg.

Editorial comment

Zimbabwe sinks into hell of hyperinflation

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The choice is simple: get involved now, while the Zimbabwean state can be saved, or get unavoidably involved later, in rescuing a failed state.


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