The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1000 GMT on Friday: ** Private equity firm Sun Capital Partners is exploring the sale of Emerald Performance Materials, a specialty chemicals company that could be worth more than $700 million, according to four sources familiar with the matter.** U.S.-insurer New York Life is in exclusive negotiations with Yuanta Financial to sell its Taiwan assets, two sources with close knowledge of the deal told Reuters on Friday.** Sempra Energy has signed up Japanese and French partners to back a liquefied natural gas export plant in Louisiana that will cost up to $10 billion, with construction expected to start next year, Sempra said on Thursday.
Sempra Energy is a holding company. During the year ended December 31, 2011, Sempra Energy?s business was organized in five segments: San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), Sempra Generation, Sempra Pipelines & Storage and Sempra LNG (liquefied natural gas). Shares of SRE remained unchanged at $82.99. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $63.02 and as high as $84.70. On average, 1050820 shares of SRE exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 0.
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