Friday, May 4, 2007

European Stocks Rise for Fourth Day on Takeovers; EMI, BHP, Reuters Climb

(Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose for a fourth day after EMI Group Plc, the world's third-largest music company, said it received takeover approaches and Merrill Lynch & Co. predicted BHP Billiton Ltd. could be broken up and sold for $201 billion.

``Takeover activity will accelerate in 2007,'' said Klaus Hagedorn, who manages about $850 million at Metzler Investment GmbH in Frankfurt. ``This will boost equity markets.''


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