IBT Staff Reporter

Kraft Foods Incsaid on Monday it secured a $9.2 billion senior unsecured term loan to help finance its $16.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Britain's Cadbury Plc.

Shares of Revlon Inc jumped 35 percent to a new year-high on Monday, after the cosmetics maker said its consumer products unit received lender consents to amend its bank term-loan and revolver credit agreements to refinance its long-term debt .

Health insurers, drugmakers and other companies expect U.S. Senate lawmakers to soften the blow from health reform legislation narrowly passed by the House of Representatives that calls for a greater government role in the industry.

Electronic Arts Inc has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other consideration as the maker of the Madden NFL series expands in the growing social gaming sector.

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Japan is expected to report as early as this week that its greenhouse gas emissions sank last year, the first year of its Kyoto Protocol obligations.

Ball Corp said on Monday that it would buy out the remaining stake in a Chinese beverage can plant for $90 million in cash and debt.

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Nokia Corp. is recalling some phone chargers that can pose an electric shock hazard for some of its models.

U.S. network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said on Monday it was extending the offer period for its $3 billion bid for Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg by nine days to November 18.

Nokia is replacing 14 million cellphone chargers which it says could give users an electric shock.

Research In Motion is making it easier for software developers make money from the applications they develop for its popular BlackBerry smartphone as the company falters in the face of stiff competition from rivals like Apple Inc.

Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp rose 7 percent on Monday after the casino operator said it would look to raise up to $3.35 billion through an initial public offering of shares in its Macau business.

New York's attorney general said the operator of Tagged.com would pay $500,000 and overhaul its practices to resolve charges that the social networking site tricked members into providing personal details to lure new members and send out tens of millions of spam emails.

U.S. stocks jumped on Monday, extending gains from the previous week, on renewed risk-taking sentiment after the Group of 20 pledged to keep economic stimulus in place until a recovery was assured.

Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider, beat Wall Street forecasts by posting a gain of 241,000 subscribers in the third quarter and surprised investors with a plan to pay shareholders a special dividend of $2 a share.

McDonald's Corp said sales at established U.S. restaurants fell 0.1 percent in October, as expected, but its stock ticked up 1.5 percent after sales from the rest of the world buoyed overall results.

General Motors Co said on Monday that it would invest C$90 million ($85.1 million) to expand a joint venture plant in Canada where it builds the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossovers.

Electronic Arts Inc has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other considerations, as the maker of the Madden NFL series extends into the growing social gaming sector.

Windstream Corp on Monday posted a deeper than expected fall in quarterly profit and revenue, even as the telephone operator reported the lowest number of customer disconnections since its formation in 2006.

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R&B singer Rihanna confessed that she has no desire at all to be with Chris Brown during an interview where she broke her silence about Brown with ABC's 20/20 Diane Sawyer.

German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said on Monday that U.S. automaker General Motors had not yet presented a plan for Opel and therefore the question of providing state aid was not being considered.

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Japan's Toshiba made a solo bid for Areva's transmission and distribution (T&D) business on Monday while AXA Private Equity said it would not join the race for the French nuclear group's coveted unit.

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