Deals
Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week
Noteworthy expenditures of the week
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1. Lehman Brothers Holdings will sell real estate company Archstone to Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities for $6.5 billion, scrapping plans to take the unit public.
2. ConAgra Foods is acquiring Ralcorp Holdings for about $5 billion to create one of North America’s largest packaged-food companies.