Business news in brief Cincinnati Post, OH - Blackstone agreed to pay an 8.5 percent premium to the closing price of Equity Office last Friday, and is taking on close to $17 billion in debt. ...

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Zions Bancorp: From Spreadshheet to Business Intelligence Software Baseline, NY - ... The budget plan Zions created in 2005, using the Business Objects application, was ... Young explains, enabled the company to minimize the cost of debt needed to ...