Business Desk
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HOTELS
HOST MARRIOTT BUYS SHERATON NEW YORK, 37 OTHERS
Host Marriott agreed to buy 38 properties including the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide for about $3.4 billion, in the largest hotel deal this year. Host Marriott will pay $2.33 billion in stock and $1.06 billion in cash. Starwood will continue to manage the hotels.
– Bloomberg News
IN BRIEF
Knight Ridder will consider a sale of the company after its biggest shareholders demanded executives address a 20% drop in the stock … Dissident seat owners of the New York Stock Exchange said in court yesterday that Goldman Sachs, by advising both sides of the planned $6 billion acquisition of Archipelago, cheated the owners out of a better deal … A NYSE seat sold for a record $3.025 million yesterday, bolstering the Big Board’s defense against critics of its plan to purchase Archipelago … Pfizer this week will unveil studies on new heart and anti-smoking drugs that analysts say may help put the company’s drug development efforts on track after several recent regulatory setbacks.
– Bloomberg News and Associated Press