U.S. Stocks Rise on Takeovers; aQuantive, General Electric, Intel Advance

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose after Microsoft Corp.
agreed to buy aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion, extending this year's
record pace of mergers and acquisitions.

AQuantive surged after Microsoft, the world's biggest
software maker, said it will buy the company to expand online
advertising services. General Electric Co. rose on expectations
the world's second-biggest company by market value will sell its
plastics unit to Saudi Basic Industries Corp. for about $11
billion.


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