Japanese media has speculated that Metro PCS is likely an upcoming takeover target.
However, no one is betting on a similar compromise being found in the next two likely candidates for takeover, Liverpool and Islington.
The biggest potential takeover targets likely to be in Diageo's sights are American and French.
Oxbridge International solicited an individual in Scotland by telling him that Pegasus was the likely subject of a takeover by a much bigger tech firm, Cisco Systems .
Brown have speculated that without Vanlev, a takeover looks likely.
Adding to the sense of foreboding is the fact that Wells Fargo, the city's other big bank, is now a likely candidate for a takeover, probably by U.S. Bancorp, based in Minneapolis.
But a sale of some of Hanson's Asian and Australian assets after the takeover seems more likely.
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Ralcorp, you might recall, rejected without negotiation unsolicited bids from ConAgra ( CAG) and adopted several measures to make further takeover attempts less likely.
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Analysts were divided on Thursday about whether Fosters was more likely to go for a takeover or merely wanted to take a big enough chunk of Southcorp to prevent it falling to a rival.
This week, Chief Executive SteveBallmerSteve Ballmer is said to be considering raising the offer by a dollar or two to avoid a hostile takeover, which likely would produce a long, nasty fight, and no certainty that Microsoft will get Yahoo!
This week, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is said to be considering raising the offer by a dollar or two to avoid a hostile takeover, which likely would produce a long, nasty fight, and no certainty that Microsoft will get Yahoo!
However, the largest effect is likely to be on the proposed takeover of BSkyB by News International.
If generic drugmaker Andrx and the other defendants win, their stocks and profits will rise, while Astra's earnings will likely suffer and the firm could become takeover bait.
As the latest of a whole series of roadblocks recently erected in the way of that takeover -it is highly likely that BSkyB's shares will fall again this morning.
This continued growth is likely to come to some extent through the takeover of local booze brands in India, China and Brazil.
In the event of a takeover, ESOP employees are one-third as likely to be laid off, Rosen says.
Ofcom and Jeremy Hunt are also likely to erect a second obstacle in the way of the takeover.
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Meanwhile, analysts have said VNU's saga is likely to continue: it's now a target for a breakup or takeover.
It meant they had likely gone past the 30% threshold set by German corporate law for launching a full takeover.
His supporters, for their part, accuse his likely successor, Ehud Barak, of opposing the idea only because it would defer his own takeover of the party.
Its new tasks will likely bring it into conflict with euro-zone capitals over what will look to some national politicians as a creeping takeover of powers reserved up to now to national governments.
But here is the thing: The size of the takeover may well be its attraction, in respect of one aspect of public policy, but it looks likely to be its undoing, at the hands of another part of the state apparatus, the City regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
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