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Simon Watkins, Financial Mail30 September 2007, 2:44pm Royal Bank of Scotland is this week expected to clinch victory in the fraught six-month battle to win control of Dutch bank ABN Amro. WANT TO KNOW MORE? SHARE DEALING: With free investment advice OTHER STORIES Can Ocado survive after yet more losses? Sunday newspaper share tips A to Z of the Sunday newspapers Troubled Blac ...

Neil Craven, Financial Mail30 September 2007, 2:31pm Tesco is expected to reveal another set of record profits on Tuesday when it posts first-half results. WANT TO KNOW MORE? CREDIT CARDS: Is yours the cheapest? OTHER STORIES Can Ocado survive after yet more losses? Sunday newspaper share tips A to Z of the Sunday newspapers Troubled Blacks woos ex-Moss Bros chief Debenhams'  ...

Ben Marlow, Financial Mail30 September 2007, 4:23pm The most prestigious management team in British private equity faces the humiliation of being ousted unless performance improves in the crucial run-up to Christmas. OTHER STORIES Can Ocado survive after yet more losses? Sunday newspaper share tips A to Z of the Sunday newspapers Troubled Blacks woos ex-Moss Bros chief Tesco expe ...

Neil Craven, Financial Mail30 September 2007, 3:33pm Blacks Leisure has held talks with Adrian Wright, the former head of menswear chain Moss Bros, as a possible replacement for ousted chief executive Russell Hardy. OTHER STORIES Can Ocado survive after yet more losses? Sunday newspaper share tips A to Z of the Sunday newspapers Debenhams' bosses face the axe Tesco expects to set ...

LONDON Thomson Financial - OGK-2 will be quoted on the London Stock Exchange from October 5, the Russian electricity firm said Friday. The pricing of the thermal wholesale generation company's initial public offering is 16 dollars per global depositary receipts and 16 US cents per ordinary share. OGK-2 issued 6,537,106,472 new shares, representing approximately 20 percent of OGK-2's issued share ...

NEW YORK Thomson Financial - Scottish Re Group Ltd on Friday said it plans to restate its per-share results for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30. The company said that it would revise its second-quarter results to a loss of 30 cents per share from previously reported income of 63 cents per share, and its first-half results to a loss of 84 cents per share from 58 cents per share. Th ...

MILAN (Thomson Financial) - Mediobanca SpA shareholder Vincent Bollore said the current chairman of Mediobancas supervisory board and shareholder pact Cesare Geronzi should be appointed deputy chairman of Assicurazioni Generali SpA before the end of the year, La Repubblica reported on Saturday, citing Bollore. Bollore said Geronzi should replace Generali's present deputy chairman, and former Medi ...

(Updating to recast lead, add comments from other interviews) FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - US financial investor Guy Wyser-Pratte said he wants to raise his shareholding in TUI AG from his current 1 pct stake and left open the possibility of demanding a break-up of the company. In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wyser-Pratte said: "I am willing to buy more shares," ...

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Two American hedge funds are to enter takeover talks with Northern Rock PLC's board this week as the mortgage bank's bondholders aim to ensure it is not sold off cheaply. According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, JC Flowers and Cerberus met John Kingman, the head of the Treasury's enterprise and growth unit, last week to discuss their separate proposals for a pos ...

ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - Nobel Biocare AG's US sales have been hit by the subprime crisis and its share price has suffered, but the dental implant maker sees no threat to its independence, chief executive Domenico Scala said in an interview with Swiss biweekly Finanz und Wirtschaft. "Long term prospects are intact. As market leader, Nobel Biocare can offer an above-average performance in ...