David Clarke News
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United Technologies Corp. agreed to sell its Hamilton Sundstrand industrial unit to Carlyle Group LP and BC Partners for $3.46 billion as the company raises cash to pay for aerospace supplier Goodrich Corp.
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Human Genome Sciences Inc. investors lost a bid to extend GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s deadline of tomorrow to decide whether to tender their shares for a $3 billion buyout.
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Macquarie Group Ltd. Chairman David Clarke , the longest serving member of Australia’s biggest investment bank, has resigned due to ill health, 19 months after returning to the post following cancer treatment.
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Gina Rinehart, Asia’s richest woman, is fighting an Australian regulator demanding financial records of her closely held company, widening efforts to maintain her privacy after losing a separate battle with her children.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s government should keep out of disputes about wages and job security that have disrupted Qantas Airways Ltd. flights and BHP Billiton Ltd. mining, the nation’s top union leader said.
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Transocean Ltd. , the owner and operator of the oil rig leased to BP Plc that exploded last month and killed 11 workers, asked a U.S. judge to limit its liability to $26.7 million.
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The Energy Technologies Institute, backed by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc, is seeking ways to monitor leaks from carbon-dioxide stores after the U.K. started a 1 billion-pound ($1.6 billion) fund for carbon capture.
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AGL Energy Ltd. ’s plan for a coal- bed methane project in Australia’s wine-growing and coal-mining Hunter Valley region sparked a protest outside its annual shareholders meeting in Sydney.
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A former employee at Johnson & Johnson ’s U.K. unit who admitted to joining a scheme to pay bribes to Greek doctors had his prison sentence overturned in a ruling that may still limit the U.K. Serious Fraud Office ’s ability to offer plea bargains.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker knows how to attract crowds -- especially shouting, fist-shaking ones waving recall placards and clamoring for his political scalp.
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