acquisition
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An acquisition of BHP’s petroleum business was cheered by investors, though they looked askance at the company’s decision to invest in a low-carbon ammonia project in Texas.
Earlier this year, it invested alongside Apollo in its acquisition of the aerospace and industrial company Barnes Group, as well as Haveli Investments in its acquisition of enterprise database firm Couchbase.
Officials said that the new purchases, greenlighted by parliament's budget committee, mean a "historic" number of defence acquisitions have been approved this year, worth nearly 83 billion euros.
From Barron's
Discovery after making several acquisition proposals earlier this year, which led the company’s board to open up the process to other bidders.
From MarketWatch
The deal, Google’s largest acquisition to date, followed an earlier attempt by Alphabet to acquire the company for $23 billion.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
