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German manufacturing and engineering titan MAN AG said it will acquire Volkswagen Truck and Bus from Volkswagen AG (OTC: VLKAY). The 250-year-old MAN AG is Europe’s third-largest truckmaker, and this purchase marks its first major South American investment, Bloomberg reported. Siemens AG (ADR:SI) will pay more than $1.3 billion to settle corporate corruption charges that ...

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Siemens AG (SI) put aside nearly $1.3 billion to settle charges that it bribed government officials around the world to win contracts. The concessionary provision will affect earnings for the year ended Sept. 30, Bloomberg reported. Internet titan Google Inc. (GOOG) announced Wednesday (yesterday) that its wariness for antitrust-related legal battles ultimately killed discussions ...

Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, Power-One Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of power conversion products. Founded in 1973, they are also a provider of power management solutions. Headquartered in Camarillo, California, the Company has approximately 4,000 employees and is part of the Diversified Electronics industry.

Power-One provides their solutions for alternative/renewable energy, routers, data storage and servers, wireless communications, optical networking, medical diagnostics, railway controls, custom applications, and automated/semiconductor test equipment. The Company offers their clients a wide variety of energy saving “green” products. Their products save energy by providing more useable output power and by generating less waste heat. This in turn saves energy by reducing host-system and facility-level cooling requirements.

Power-One’s product portfolio includes alternative-energy inverters that facilitate taking in clean power from the sun and wind. They also include AC-DC products that refine AC electricity into DC lower voltages, and DC-DC converters that convert DC

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Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, Power-One Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of power conversion products. Founded in 1973, they are also a provider of power management solutions. Headquartered in Camarillo, California, the Company has approximately 4,000 employees and is part of the Diversified Electronics industry.

Power-One provides their solutions for alternative/renewable energy, routers, data storage and servers, wireless communications, optical networking, medical diagnostics, railway controls, custom applications, and automated/semiconductor test equipment. The Company offers their clients a wide variety of energy saving “green” products. Their products save energy by providing more useable output power and by generating less waste heat. This in turn saves energy by reducing host-system and facility-level cooling requirements.

Power-One’s product portfolio includes alternative-energy inverters that facilitate taking in clean power from the sun and wind. They also include AC-DC products that refine AC electricity into DC lower voltages, and DC-DC converters that convert DC

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Everyone is looking for a low share price bargain. But what about the high priced shares? There are plenty of great stocks, besides Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A), that sell for over $100 a share.Here are some stocks, all trading in excess of $100 a share, that have P/E ratios less than 20, PEG ratios less than 1, market caps above $15 billion, and all but one pay a dividend.Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) the large investment banking firm, has the highest priced shares on the list at about $154 per share. The stock has a P/E of 8 , a PEG of 0.43 and pays a yield of 0.9% .CNOOC Limited (ADR) (CEO) is the explorer and producer of crude oil and natural gas off the coast of China which sell for around $143 per share. The stock has a ...