In many countries, the buyer must record the difference between the price of the acquisition and the target firm's reported assets as a new asset on its balance sheet.
Hewlett Packard (HPQ) posted better than expected earnings, prompting several brokerages to raise their price target on the firm.
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Italy has accused France of protectionism over a controversial deal to merge Gaz de France and Suez, which was a takeover target for Italian firm Enel.
Among them was Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch, who made his name last year by setting what seemed an impossibly ambitious share-price target for the firm, and was promptly proved right.
Once he has accumulated enough capital, Wang plans to open a "commercial investigation firm" to target makers of fake and substandard products.
His vehicle: "Global Intelligence, " precious and elusive information on the strengths, weaknesses and foibles of the brass at an acquisition target or at the client firm itself.
He added that his firm would initially target the device at restaurants, hotels, airports and sports stadia, but added that he thought it ultimately "ought to be in everybody's house" as it was more hygienic than using and re-using hand towels.
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They could stand firm on an NGDP target or pass the mother of all stimulus bills.
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The firm explained its reduced target was due to all the problems, such as the Eurocrisis, etc.
The British firm makes a tempting target because, though it is small compared with some former monopolies, it generates healthy profits from its 25m mobile customers.
One of the hottest new issues of the summer, shares in the derivatives and commodities trading firm opened above their target range and surged 25% in the first trading session.
The firm is expected to target a lower-priced section of the luxury market with its new Mercedes luxury line, and develop cars for sale at a price in the 100, 000-300, 000 euros range.
He has already made a killing from a big investment in Orange, a British mobile operator that was bought by Mannesmann before the German firm itself became the target of Britain's Vodafone AirTouch.
The firm has set itself the target of cutting costs by the 90% needed to make fuel cells competitive in vehicles by 2003.
It's a clear vote of confidence when one company buys another and asks the chief executive of its target to take charge of the merged firm.
The firm was previously a bid target for bookmaker Ladbrokes.
Shalom says his firm's decision to target specific hardware, in pursuit of higher performance and greater scalability, is in some ways similar to Oracle's recent moves to leverage the proprietary server hardware it got with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Then last week, the firm trimmed its estimates and price target on the company.
But Sam Barnett, whose advertising technology firm Struq helps to track and target consumers according to their habits, told us that personalisation was a positive force.
With help from the Environmental Defence Fund, an American lobbying group, it has also launched an experiment in emissions trading within the firm to help it reach that target.
Thus is virtue rewarded and pollution checked at an overall cost that is less than if each firm were required to meet an individual target.
The rise in passenger numbers fell short of Ryanair's target of 25% expansion a year, but the firm is confident of getting growth back on track.
Putting those findings to work, the firm formalized guidelines for the deals it would target and improved operations to ensure that it would adhere to those guidelines.
But the message delivered to President Zardari by the 58 leaders of an all-party conference held in Islamabad on December 2nd was firm and straightforward: any Indian strike on any target in Pakistan would constitute an act of war.
Our firm has been very privileged to surround ourselves with our target clientele and work alongside them as well.
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Prior to moving out west, Dana was a consultant at a boutique healthcare strategy consulting firm in New York, where she advised clients on target screening, acquisition and product commercialization opportunities.
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