He says the combination with Wachovia is a merger between two equals, not an acquisition, and that the deal comes at a modest price of just 6percentt above Wachovia's stock price before the announcement.
ORIGINAL POST: After months of rumors, and amidst mounting speculation that a deal was imminent, The Daily Beast announced that it has withdrawn from talks with Newsweek about a merger between the two organizations.
Channel Five and Channel 4 have this week presented the government with conflicting analyses of how a merger between the two broadcasters could work, as a final decision on the future of commercially funded public service broadcasting draws closer.
The company also said the commission decision was based on an "erroneous" definition of the market for derivatives, and that it was at odds with approval in 2007 of a merger between the two main derivatives exchanges in Chicago to form the CME Group.
Instead, Namath signed with the Jets and helped force a merger between the American Football League and the N.F.L. Fourteen years later, the Cardinals drafted another dynamic athlete, Kirk Gibson, a wide receiver out of Michigan State.
France helped to rescue Dexia, which lends mainly to municipalities, with a capital injection and engineered a merger between two savings banks, Banque Populaire and the Caisse d'?argne.
When Wales adopted regional rugby in 2003 it was natural that Williams became an Osprey, with the new side created by a merger between Neath and local rivals Swansea.
