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SportsOXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss volleyball plays its last home match of the season Sunday afternoon in Oxford, hosting an Arkansas team that arrives on a 2-1 run. First serve is set for 2 p.m. Central. The Rebels sit at eight wins and 14 losses,…
SportsOXFORD, Miss. — No. 2 Georgia beat No. 10 Ole Miss 42-7 on Saturday night, Nov. 7, in Oxford, sending the Rebels to 6-3 and punching a hole in their playoff path. Ole Miss went backward on its opening series. After the punt, Nate Frazier…
From Merger Monday
Monday’s deal tape had a pattern. Nearly every buyer already owned a piece of what it was buying. Crédit Agricole holds 29.6% of Banco BPM and wants to reach about 45% by folding its Italian bank into the Milan lender, structured so that it never has to make a tender offer…
From Merger Monday
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has hired Mizuho Securities and BofA Securities to arrange its first yen-denominated bond sale since April, returning to a market where it has borrowed about twice a year to fund its Japanese investments. The planned benchmark offering of senior unsecured notes is expected in the near future, subject…
From Merger Monday
Onodrim Industries, an Amsterdam company that plans to buy and hold European defense and industrial suppliers, raised $300 million in a Series A round led by Lux Capital that values it at $1.3 billion, nine months after its seed financing. General Catalyst, Lakestar, Altimeter, Strike Capital, 137 Ventures, 8090 and Expeditions…
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