Taking Stock
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Your support makes all the difference.Remember ADT, the Michael Ashcroft vehicle? Although the corporate magician has left the company, ADT, now called Tyco International, is still buying companies. Its latest acquisition is Keystone International, an industrial valves group. Mr Ashcroft left ADT around pounds 150m richer. Tyco is still based in Bermuda. Its shares, traded in London, fell 450p to 4,050p.
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