Deals
Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week
Noteworthy expenditures of the week
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1. Precision Castparts, a maker of metal components for jet engines, is buying Texas billionaire Harold Simmons’s Titanium Metals for $2.9 billion.
2. New York investment bank Jefferies Group agreed to be acquired by its biggest shareholder, Leucadia National, for $2.8 billion. Jefferies management will run the combined company.