Barring objections from the Department of Justice (DoJ) the merger is set to close at year-end.
We found that both buyers and sellers were eager to make the deal and have it close by year-end.
So the important question at this point is whether these levels are attractive enough for investors to be willing to jump in so close to year-end.
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Japan's Nikkei index closed at 8, 429.45 on Friday - its lowest year-end close since 1982.
This is close to our low-end estimate using Simply Hired as benchmark.
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By placing small units close to the end-user, utilities (or end-users) need not in the first place send so much power down those ageing lines.
Boyd had a close-range opportunity near the end but the Rangers striker was denied by the Dunfermline keeper.
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Lampard brought up Chelsea's seventh with a controlled header from Anelka's bullet cross, while Bent rounded off the goal frenzy at the other end with close-range finish in stoppage time.
While the quality of mirrorless cameras can be close to that of low-end SLR cameras, premium model SLRs still offer greater photo quality because they have larger image sensors and have features that are important to professional photographers.
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Twice Dirk Kuyt narrowly failed to get on the end of close-range crosses as Liverpool sought a second, while Carragher headed an Aurelio corner just wide, but on a night where only nine goals were scored in eight Champions League matches, N'gog's goal was to prove the only one of the game.
Is there really demand for high-end condos so close to the shabby charm of downtown?
Four more in the Sudbury area will close at the end of 2012-13.
Huawei may close in on Apple by year-end for second place, Lenovo likely enters the Top 5 and Coolpad will almost definitely throw out Nokia from the Top 10 when it enters this Spring, like Lenovo did for Motorola last year.
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Huddersfield-based firm Marshalls is to close its site in Maltby by the end of the year because of a worse-than-feared slump in the building industry.
The Cardinals made it close at the end, closing to 60-56 after a pair of 3s by Shoni Schimmel and a layup by Jude Schimmel as Syracuse misfired at the free-throw line.
The Cardinals made it close at the end, closing to 60-56 after a pair of 3s by Shoni Schimmel and a layup by Jude Schimmel as Syracuse misfired at the free-throw line, but that was as close as the Cardinals came.
India's leaders feel badly let down by General Musharraf, who has repeatedly promised to end cross-border terrorism and close down extremist religious groups.
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On Wednesday, Constellation said that its deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev is expected to close around the end of its current quarter, the first of its fiscal 2014 year.
As 2011 winds down to a close, many small business owners are scrutinizing year-end tax deadlines in a last-ditch effort to lighten their payment to Uncle Sam come April.
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Close to the end of the first official open-floor day at IFA, Samsung managed to eke out yet another product we want to get our hands on, soonish.
But the Raptors bounced back again, blocking a number of close-range Knicks shots, and it looked like they would pull out a hard-fought victory and end Lin's feel-good streak.
Stoudemire's buzzer-beater to end the quarter got the Knicks within 62-51 and New York eventually got as close as 65-57 with 9:10 left.
World Trade Center's insistence on up-close and personal heroics puts it at the opposite end of the spectrum from Paul Greengrass's austere United 93.
For instance, historically the market has been willing to pay between 6.6x and 14.7x times cash earnings per share for Halliburton, but the stock currently trades uncomfortably close to the high end of that range at price-to-cash earnings of 13.8x.
This race is going to be incredibly close -- razor thin in some places -- until the end.
Firefighters were called to the end-of-terrace property in Merryweather Close at 0630 GMT.
Profits would be close to the top end of this range due to better-than-expected cost controls and margins, it added.
The monthly chart for SPY shifts to negative at the end of September with a monthly close below the five-month modified moving average at 127.52.
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The SPY is now up over 15% since the November 2012 lows and is already close to the yearly double-digit gain that I discussed at the end of the year.
Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards, enjoying a rare start, went close with a dipping effort at the end of a disappointing first-half for Wales where the hosts lacked penetration, urgency and a cutting edge.
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