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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $250 million of 7.150% Senior Notes due 2019. The notes were offered to the public at a price of 97.559% of principal amount. Starwood expects to use the net proceeds from the proposed offering to purchase up to $200 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 77/8% Senior Notes due 2012 and up to $100 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 61/4% Senior Notes due 2013 pursuant to a ...

MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Concho Resources Inc. (NYSE: CXO) ("Concho" or the "Company") today reported financial and operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and provided 2010 capital budget detail and guidance. Highlights for the three months ended September 30, 2009 include: -- Production of 2.9 million barrels of oil equivalents ("MMBoe") for the three months ended September 30, 2009, a 51% increase over the third quarter of 2008 and a 5% increase over the second quarter of 2009 -- Third quarter net income of $19.8 million ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), announced today that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 10-year senior notes through an underwritten public offering. Starwood intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to purchase up to $200 million aggregate principal amount (subject to increase by Starwood) of its outstanding 7.875% Senior Notes due 2012 and up to $100 million aggregate principal amount (subject to increase by Starwood) of its outstanding 6.250% Senior Notes due 2013 pursuant to a cash tender offer also ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Invitel Holdings A/S (NYSE Amex U.S.: IHO) ("Invitel") announced today the consummation of a series of transactions that will result in Mid Europa Partners Limited ("Mid Europa") becoming the controlling shareholder of Invitel and a de-leveraging of the cash-pay debt of Invitel and its subsidiaries (the "Invitel Group"). The closing of each of these transactions was inter-conditional upon the closing of the other transactions. The series of transactions included the following transactions: TDC A/S ("TDC") and Mid Europa announced today the consummation of the first ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J., LONDON and HONG KONG, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) today announced that Knight Libertas has established a Global Emerging Markets Sales team based in Greenwich, Conn., Hong Kong and London. Effective immediately, the following have joined the institutional fixed income broker-dealer: Augusto Castilho, Eamon Tubridy, Alfredo Viegas and Elena Antonova in the U.S.; Alesandro Gherzi, Alisa Mujagic, Nipun Ramaiya, Darren Reiss, Richard Segal and Will Trossell in the U.K.; and Jay Lee and Felix Sun in Asia. "Knight is pleased to announce these hires as part of the build-out of our Global Emerging Markets business, which will focus on names across Latin America, Eastern Europe/Russia, Africa and Asia," said Dan Mullineaux, managing director, global head of emerging markets fixed income. "We will continue to add top-tier talent in all three major time zones as we develop a full-service emerging markets platform encompassing sales ...