Alcan rejects Alcoa request for bid talks
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MONTREAL/NEW YORK  - Alcan Inc.   has rebuffed requests by Alcoa Inc.  for a meeting to discuss Alcoa's hostile $28.6 billion offer for the Canadian aluminum producer, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
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Gold Fields has rejected a takeover bid from smaller rival Harmony, saying its assets were undervalued. Gold Fields also reiterated its intention to press ahead with a planned tie-up with Canada&#39;s Iamgold.
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Alcan Inc.   has begun negotiating a $34 billion friendly offer from Rio Tinto PLC  to fend off a hostile $28.6 billion bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc. , newspapers said on Wednesday.
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Britain&#39;s Cadbury Schweppes Plc   rejected a private equity bid for its North American drinks  unit over the terms rather than price after it was asked to  finance a third of the deal, industry sources said on Friday.
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Alcoa's offer for Canadian rival Alcan is trumped by white knight Rio Tinto.
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Canadian aluminum producing giant Alcan Inc. said Friday that it is in exclusive talks to sell the company&#39;s stake in Aluminium de Grece SA to metals company Mytilineos Holdings SA of Greece.
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Rio Tinto  , the  world&#39;s second-biggest miner, is considering gate-crashing  Alcoa Inc.&#39;s  $28.6 billion hostile bid for Alcan Inc.   , sources familiar with the matter said on  Friday.
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Alcan Inc.  said on Friday that a $28.6 billion hostile offer from Alcoa Inc.  remains inadequate and the big Canadian aluminum maker is pursuing alternatives such as talks with other groups.
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English Premiership club Newcastle have reportedly rejected a takeover bid from the Belgravia Group.
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While it has rejected each of Oracle Corp.'s takeover offers today, PeopleSoft's board of directors is willing to talk about a deal at the right price, a member of the company's board said today.
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Rio Tinto  , the world's second-largest mining group, on Tuesday dismissed talk that it was lining up a bid for Canadian aluminum maker Alcan  as speculation, but did not to deny the rumor outright.
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Alcoa Inc., one of the world&#39;s top producers of aluminum, said Monday that it received an unsolicited &quot;mini-tender&quot; offer from Toronto-based TRC Capital Corp.
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SYDNEY/LONDON  - Mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd.   is not currently working on a bid for U.S. aluminum producer Alcoa Inc , sources close to the matter said on Tuesday, playing down a newspaper report.
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South Africa's Competition Tribunal has rejected a request by Gold Fields Ltd. to block a &#36;7.1 billion hostile takeover by Harmony Gold Mining Co. that would create the world's largest gold mining company.
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Mining firm Rio Tinto rejects a $147bn hostile takeover offer from rival BHP Billiton.
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Alcan Inc. , the big Canadian  aluminum maker, said on Friday that a $28.6-billion hostile  takeover offer from Alcoa Inc.  remains inadequate, and  that it is pursuing alternatives such as talks with other  groups.
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The London Stock Exchange today rejected a Â£1.35bn takeover approach from German rival Deutsche BÃ¶rse, but held open the prospect of further talks.