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Credit crunch, lower natural gas, transmission congestion put brakes on wind power

star-telegram.com
yesterday 2 related
        

When investor Boone Pickens put a hold on a huge wind power project in the Texas Panhandle that he had announced in the spring, he wasn’t alone. A number of wind power developers and researchers say the ongoing credit crisis,...

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Council to review shopping center OK

signonsandiego.com
15-Nov-2008
        

OCEANSIDE: A decision by the Oceanside Planning Commission to approve a 92-acre shopping center will be considered by the City Council on Wednesday. Attorneys for a rival mall, Westfield Plaza Camino Real in Carlsbad, appealed...

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Berkshire hikes ConocoPhillips stake

cnn.com
15-Nov-2008 15 related
        

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's company picked up roughly 66 million shares of ConocoPhillips stock between March and September to boost its stake to nearly 6% of the oil company's stock. Berkshire...

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U.S. coal boom slows in 2008, '09 a question

reuters.com
14-Nov-2008 2 related
        

NORFOLK, Virginia (Reuters) - After struggling to keep up with soaring coal exports through the first 10 months of this year, U.S. coal shippers now face the prospect of a serious slowdown due to the worldwide economic slowdown.

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BRIEF-Berkshire Hathaway reports 2.91 million share stake in Eaton

finanznachrichten.de
14-Nov-2008
        

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc, in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing: * Reports 2.91 million share stake in Eaton Corp at September 30 * Reduces stake in Bank of America Corp as of September 30...

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Mergers and acquisitions in steep slide

iht.com
13-Nov-2008 8 related
        

The volume of global mergers and acquisitions could fall about 35 percent in 2009 from an expected volume of $3.1 trillion this year, investment bankers say. Among investment bankers, who typically boast about a full pipeline...

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[$$] Energy Prey Can Find Partners (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

yahoo.com
14-Nov-2008 1 related
        

The energy sector's big boys walk with a renewed swagger these days. The most striking example is Exelon Corp.'s hostile bid for smaller independent power producer NRG Energy. Jim Rogers, chief executive of big utility Duke...

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Exelon Launches Exchange Offer for NRG Energy, Inc.

euroinvestor.co.uk
12-Nov-2008 6 related
        

Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) announced today that it has launched an exchange offer for all of the outstanding shares of NRG Energy, Inc. common stock at a fixed exchange ratio of 0.485 Exelon shar.. - Read more

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Exelon goes hostile after $6bn bid rebuff

ft.com
12-Nov-2008 10 related
        

By Julie MacIntosh in New York and Sheila McNulty in Houston Exelon launched a hostile takeover battle for rival NRG Energy on Tuesday, after NRG rejected its unsolicited $6.2bn offer to combine the companies into the largest...

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Kill the competition: Pound tumbles ... Russian gamble ... Trackers back

timesonline.co.uk
12-Nov-2008
        

Wednesday, November 12, 0730 GMT Welcome to today's round-up of business news from The Times: what we're saying, what they're saying Top stories The Times: The pound tumbled to new lows on concerns over how Britain will fund...

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