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Fitch Affirms Capital One & Lowers North Fork On Merger Completion Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings has affirmed Capital One Financial Corp.'s 'BBB+' long-term Issuer Default Rating with a Positive Rating Outlook. Fitch has also downgraded and removed from Rating Watch Negative North Fork Bancorporation, Inc.'s long-term IDR to 'BBB+' from 'A-' following the Dec. 1, 2006 closing of its acquisition by COF.
Merger over, Kanas stays put – for now Long Island Business News
On Dec. 1, John Adam Kanas cashed out his shares in North Fork Bancorp. Inc., the institution he built up from a minor East End player to a metropolitan force. But that doesn’t mean he’s checked out of the banking business.
Capital One finishes $13.2 bln North Fork purchase Reuters via Yahoo! News
Capital One Financial Corp. said on Friday it completed its $13.2 billion purchase of North Fork Bancorp Inc., becoming the 11th-largest U.S. banking company and third-largest retail bank by deposits in the New York metropolitan area.
Capital One completes $13.2B buy of North Fork bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance
Capital One Financial is now the 11th largest bank in the United States, based on deposits, after completing its $13.2 billion acquisition of North Fork Bancorp. on Friday.
Capital One Completes Acquisition of North Fork Bancorporation FinanzNachrichten
MCLEAN, Va., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Capital One Financial today announced that it has completed its acquisition of North Fork Bancorporation, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. As a result of the $13.2 billion stock and cash action, Capital One is the 11th largest bank in the United States, based on deposits, and the third-largest retail depository institution in the metro New York region.
Santa a warm spot in the cold Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As Santa Clauses go, Terry Slebodnik, 36, of Monongahela, is a cut above the ordinary.
Capital One Completes North Fork Buy AP via Yahoo! Finance
Credit-card issuer Capital One Financial said it completed its acquisition of North Fork Bancorp, which operates banks in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, for $13.2 billion in cash and stock.
Summer motor ban on Illinois up for review Salem Statesman Journal
Rules that would ban motor boats during the summer on sections of the Illinois River in Curry County and impose a no-wake rule on the North Fork Siuslaw River near Florence will be considered on Dec. 14 during a meeting in Salem.
Daily Digest 12.6 Provo Daily Herald
Students at Legacy Elementary School in American Fork are joining together this holiday season to help a boy who has cancer. A bazaar and auction, "Links of Love for Logan," will be at Legacy Elementary School, 28 E. 1340 North in American Fork, from 6-8 p.m.
TIGHTLINES: Diehard anglers cast away The News-Review
The following is a fishing report compiled by fisheries and biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife: Southwest Zone Trout angling closed in many streams, rivers, and bays.
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