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Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
News Corp of Australia and Softbank Inc of Japan will spend 20 billion yen ($176 million) to start satellite television service in Japan, last big market not part of Rupert Murdoch's global network; venture, Japan Sky Broadcasting Co, will have 150 channels (S)
Date: 19 December 1996
By Nadine Brozan
Nadine Brozan
Prince Albert of Monaco says persistent photographers are reason he is still unwed at age 38 (Chronicle column) (S)
Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company acquires agricultural loan portfolio of closely held MBL Life Assurance Corp for more than $350 million (S)
Date: 19 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bay Networks says it has acquired Netics for about $99 million (S)
Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc says it will report loss for fourth quarter, after spending more on marketing; says it expects to lose 13 cents to 17 cents a share for period (S)
Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chase Manhattan Corp awards stock options to all 67,000 employees, promising potential windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars to workers if bank's shares surge in coming years (S)
Date: 19 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chase Manhattan Corp agrees to buy most of Source One Mortgage Services Corp's mortgage operation; deal will make Chase the No 2 processor of home loans in country, behind Norwest Corp; Source One is owned by Fund American Enterprises Holdings; terms not disclosed (S)
Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Standard Companies says that its largest stockholder, Kelso & Co, will sell its remaining 27 percent stake, or 20.8 million shares, valued at about $780 million (S)
Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SEC is expected to adopt new rule on Wednesday to relax trading restrictions on stocks and bonds in days before companies sell new issues of securities to public (S)
Date: 18 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goldman, Sachs, nation's biggest investment banking partnership, says its pretax earnings rose 69 per cent in fiscal fourth quarter, as profit from investment banking, trading and sales led firm to its second-best year; Goldman Sachs Group LP reports that earnings before taxes increased to $743 milllion in three months ending in November, from $440 million in similar period year earlier; pretax profits for full year totaled $2.6 billion (S)