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Confectioners: Cadbury, Hershey, more

On Monday, Nov. 9, Kraft Foods Inc. formally made a hostile bid for Cadbury plc. Cadbury's management reacted by advising its shareholders to reject the offer.

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On Monday, Nov. 9, Kraft Foods Inc. formally made a hostile bid for Cadbury plc. Cadbury's management reacted by advising its shareholders to reject the offer.

BofA-Merrill Lynch

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Tishman Speyer's $5.4B deal for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village symbolized the peak of the real estate boom. Now, the company is feeling some pain as several bonds tied to the development were downgraded.

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