The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/24/2011) Caterpillar And Kimberly Earnings, Oracle M&A

Investing

Published: October 24, 2011 8:44 am

CNN Money: Some M&A activity this AM: Cigna to acquire HealthSpring in $3.8B deal; Oracle is buying RightNow Tech in $1.5B deal. $CI, $HS, $ORCL, $RNOW

NYT: Sara Lee to Sell Coffee Group to J.M. Smucker

Reuters: Reuters: Caterpillar quarterly earnings rise 44 percent

WSJ: Caterpillar Profit Jumps

WSJ: Kimberly-Clark Cuts Forecast

Yahoo Finance: U.S. firms hold off hiring, but not many layoffs: poll

NYT: Saab Ends Agreements With Chinese Investors

MarketWatch: Oracle to buy RightNow for $1.5 billion; premium works out to about 20%

Yahoo! Finance: Wal-Mart ups the ante in holiday price matching

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