(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures advanced after billionaire investor Edward Lampert said he bought an $800 million stake in Citigroup Inc. and more companies agreed to be acquired.
Bausch & Lomb Inc. rallied as a private equity firm said it will buy the maker of contact lenses, while Agile Software Corp. jumped on Oracle Corp.'s plan to purchase the company. Shares of Microsoft Corp. gained after George Soros doubled his holdings in the world's largest software maker.
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