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...Potential deal values were not disclosed, but DCP was valued at about $1bn earlier this year, and MRC has previously been valued at more than $1bn MRC makes House of Cards which has been rocked by the removal...
...MRC Global, an energy pipeline company backed by Goldman Sachs’ private equity arm, filed with regulators to raise $100m, sharply less than the $750m it set out to raise in 2009....
...MRC had attracted bids for the series from several companies, including Time Warner’s HBO channel....
...During the period, Numis helped pizza-to-pubs entrepreneur Hugh Osmond raise £417.7m by listing his Horizon Acquisition vehicle, which has since approached builder Crest Nicholson....
...Google shares rose 6 per cent to $417.23 and Microsoft was 5.8 per cent higher at $20.89....
...HSBC jumped 12.6 per cent to 417¾p, while Lloyds Banking Group rose 11.2 per cent to 61½p and Royal Bank of Scotland was up 4.2 per cent to 25p....
...Home Retail Group added 2 per cent to 417¼p amid rumours of a 530p-a-share bid from a private equity consortium. In November reports had Blackstone and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts mulling an approach....
...Retail investors took profits in Centurion Energy, down 7.2 per cent to 417½p in light trading....
...The Philadelphia Semiconductor index fell 2.2 per cent to 417.92. Insurers were higher after two big companies weighed in with their fourth-quarter results....
...cent lower to 625.5p, Centrica shed 3.2 per cent to 242p, Scottish & Southern Energy lost 3.3 per cent to 889.5p, Severn Trent traded 3.1 per cent lower at 912.5p and Scottish Power fell 3 per cent to 417.25p...
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