Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
DJIA	15,341.30	-13.10	-0.09%
S&P 500	1,666.64	-0.83	-0.05%
Nasdaq	3,497.32	-1.64	-0.05%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

DJIA

15,341.30

-13.10

-0.09%

S&P 500

1,666.64

-0.83

-0.05%

Nasdaq

3,497.32

-1.64

-0.05%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
STOXX 50	2,824.50	+6.51	0.23%
FTSE 100	6,755.63	+32.57	0.48%
DAX	8,455.83	+57.83	0.69%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

STOXX 50

2,824.50

+6.51

0.23%

FTSE 100

6,755.63

+32.57

0.48%

DAX

8,455.83

+57.83

0.69%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
Nikkei	15,360.80	+222.69	1.47%
Hang Seng	23,493.00	+410.35	1.78%
S&P/ASX 200	5,209.04	+28.26	0.55%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

Nikkei

15,360.80

+222.69

1.47%

Hang Seng

23,493.00

+410.35

1.78%

S&P/ASX 200

5,209.04

+28.26

0.55%

IBM May Buy 20% of Billionaire Batista’s SIX Unit, Veja Says

By Juan Pablo Spinetto - 2012-03-31T17:29:57Z

International Business Machines Corp. is buying a 20 percent stake in SIX, the technology unit of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista, Veja reported in its Radar online column, without saying where it obtained the information.

IBM has also agreed on a contract worth $1 billion to provide services to Batista’s company for 10 years, Veja said. Batista, who has a memorandum of understanding signed with IBM last year, will announce the agreement soon, the magazine said.

A spokeswoman for IBM in Sao Paulo declined to comment on the report when contacted by Bloomberg News today. A media official at EBX Group Co., the holding company for most of Batista’s assets, didn’t have an immediate comment when contacted by Bloomberg News today.

To contact the reporters on this story: Juan Pablo Spinetto in Rio de Janeiro at jspinetto@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dale Crofts at dcrofts@bloomberg.net

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