Thursday, July 26, 2007

Siemens's Loescher Starts With Mega-Deals, Disappointments, Sliding Shares

(Bloomberg) -- Peter Loescher, less than a month
into his job as Siemens AG's chief executive officer, handed
investors two of the German engineering company's biggest deals
and a 6 percent stock plunge in the same day.

The stock lost the most in more than four years yesterday
after Siemens agreed to buy Dade Behring Holdings Inc. for $7
billion, 38 percent more than the U.S. medical-scanner maker's
market value the day before. Siemens also agreed to sell its VDO
automotive unit to Continental AG for 11.4 billion euros ($15.7
billion). To top it off, he presented earnings that disappointed
investors.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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