Australia&#39;s Worley Places Shares At A$4.10 Each - Source
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australian engineering company Worley Group Ltd. (WOR.AU) has placed shares with institutional investors at A$4.
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Shares of WMC Resources Ltd., the world&#39;s fifth-largest nickel metal producer, rose on optimism Xstrata Plc. will need to raise its A$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) hostile bid and that other companies may submit higher offers.
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XSTRATA saw its shares fall 1.4 per cent yesterday after the London-listed miner said it was taking its A$7.4 billion (Â£3.12bn) offer for Australiaâs WMC Resources hostile, following a rebuff from the WMC board last month.
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World number six gold miner Harmony Gold on Monday announced that it had secured 10.8 percent of shares in world number four gold miner Gold Fields as a result of its early settlement offer, which closed at 12h00 on Friday.
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Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management Inc.  made an approach to buy out Australia's Multiplex Ltd. , sending shares in the A$4 billion ($3 billion) construction and property firm up as much as 8 percent.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian stocks are trading at a fresh record Thursday, defying a negative lead on Wall Street. Market heavyweight News Corp, leading airline Qantas and the top four banks are all higher.
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The Australian dollar may gain after Switzerland-based Xstrata Plc bid A$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) for WMC Resources Ltd., stoking speculation it will have to buy dollars to pay shareholders.
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POWER group United Utilities is to sell its green energy assets in Australia to Novera Macquarie Renewable Energy. The deal, worth Â£63m, is for 40 green energy projects, with a total generating capacity of
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LONGVIEW, Wash. (Dow Jones/AP) _ Shares in a small upstate New York company that makes earthquake-shock absorbers shot up Monday, as investors anticipated increased global demand after the devastating earthquake off Indonesia.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) - Shares of News Corp. dropped over 4 percent in Australia overnight Monday after the owner of Fox News and other media properties adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan that seeks to block takeovers.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 (Â£13.79) per share, or about $10.3bn. The transaction has been approved by both companies&#39; boards of directors and is expected to close by early January.
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Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity  was looking at a possible bid for CanWest Global Communications Corp.'s  stake in Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings Ltd. , a source familiar with the situation said.
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Â· Rose also promised Â£4.5m in shares if targets are met  Â· Shopworkers in line for payouts of Â£500 each
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WMC currently is fending off a AU$7.4 billion takeover bid by Switzerland-based Xstrata PLC. The mining company upgraded its earnings forecast to around $1.3 billion for the calendar year, above analysts&#39; expectations.
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Australian mining firm WMC Resources says it is worth up to 30% more than a hostile $5.8bn takeover bid by Swiss rival Xstrata.