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Auto buyouts speed to $70bn

The global value of automotive companies in private equity hands is close to $70bn (€51bn) after a company owned by The Blackstone Group raised its bid for VDO, the automotive supplies unit of Siemens.

TRW Automotive, owned by Blackstone, is competing for VDO with Continental.

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