TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Mergers and acquisitions highlights to 09:20 GMT

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Mergers and acquisitions highlights to 09:20 GMT
CNBC - TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - The Taiwan Stock Exchange is planning to sell up to 25 pct of its equity to strategic investors, including an investment bank and other exchanges, during or after an initial public offering in 2009, the Financial Times reported
Source: www.cnbc.com

Emerging CME rival shaping up
Chicago Tribune - First he reviewed past efforts to break the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade's lock on futures trading, then Paul Saltzman borrowed from an old recipe: He enlisted many of the world's premiere financial institutions as investors
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Colombia rebels keep hostages and Chavez waiting
Reuters - The mission is being closely watched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who believes it could lead to freeing other high-profile captives, including French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, in exchange for jailed guerrillas. The rebels also
Source: www.reuters.com

Severstal plans $1bn investment in US
MSNBC - Severstal, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, has most of its steel output in Russia but has some operations in France and Italy as well as the US and is studying options for other acquisitions elsewhere. The US profit targets have come
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Leading Global Proxy Advisory Firm Supports Costa Brava
Forbes - and are available at no charge at the securities and exchange commission's website at http://www.sec.gov . information relating to the participants in this proxy solicitation are contained in the schedule 14a filed with the securities and exchange
Source: www.forbes.com