Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
DJIA	15,389.70	+54.37	0.35%
S&P 500	1,670.00	+3.71	0.22%
Nasdaq	3,503.27	+6.83	0.20%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

DJIA

15,389.70

+54.37

0.35%

S&P 500

1,670.00

+3.71

0.22%

Nasdaq

3,503.27

+6.83

0.20%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
STOXX 50	2,821.65	-2.85	-0.10%
FTSE 100	6,803.87	+48.24	0.71%
DAX	8,472.20	+16.37	0.19%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

STOXX 50

2,821.65

-2.85

-0.10%

FTSE 100

6,803.87

+48.24

0.71%

DAX

8,472.20

+16.37

0.19%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
Nikkei	15,381.00	+20.21	0.13%
Hang Seng	23,366.40	-126.66	-0.54%
S&P/ASX 200	5,180.06	-28.98	-0.56%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

Nikkei

15,381.00

+20.21

0.13%

Hang Seng

23,366.40

-126.66

-0.54%

S&P/ASX 200

5,180.06

-28.98

-0.56%

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Wahaha Leads Bidding to Acquire KP Snacks, Sunday Times Reports

By Paul Dobson - 2012-08-19T11:59:09Z

Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co. is in pole position to buy United Biscuits’s 520 million-pound ($816 million) KP Snacks unit, the Sunday Times reported, without saying where it got the information.

Blackstone Group LP (BX) and PAI Partners, the owners of United Biscuits, are being advised by Credit Suisse Group AG and sent a four-page sales document to potential buyers including Wahaha, the newspaper said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Dobson in London at pdobson2@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Daniel Tilles at dtilles@bloomberg.net

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