Rio Tinto launches $38 billion bid for Alcan
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc. has agreed to buy Canadian aluminum company Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion, in a move that creates the world's biggest aluminum company.
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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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BHP Billiton Ltd. , the  world&#39;s largest mining group, is considering a bid to rival a  $28.7 billion offer for aluminum producer Alcan Inc. ,  and has hired investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. ,  sources familiar with the matter said.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  ,  the world&#39;s biggest miner, is in talks with private equity  firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S.  aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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LONDON/MONTREAL  - Rio Tinto  , the world's second-biggest miner, is considering gate-crashing Alcoa Inc.'s  $28.6 billion hostile bid for Alcan Inc.  , sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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The world's largest mining group, BHP Billington Ltd.,  is considering a rival bid for aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  and has hired an investment bank, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Alcoa's offer for Canadian rival Alcan is trumped by white knight Rio Tinto.
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The $101-a-share Rio Tinto bid represents a 32.8 percent premium to Alcoaâs hostile offer of $76.03 a share, potentially making it difficult for Alcoa to increase its bid.
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Alcan Inc. has agreed to sell its ferroalloy business to Spain&#39;s Ferroatlantica SL for more than 100 million euros ($136.3 million or C$164.2 Canadian), the world&#39;s second biggest aluminum producer said on Thursday.
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Europe&#39;s main stock markets held steady after recent heavy losses, as investors looked to miner Rio Tinto&#39;s mammoth 38.1-billion-dollar takeover for Alcan, dealers said Thursday.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc   has  hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible bid for Canadian  aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  , the Sydney Morning  Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
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The aluminum producer Alcoa said in a statement that it would continue to pursue its $27.4 billion cash and stock bid for a rival, Alcan, despite the Canadian companyâs rejection of the offer. But Alcoaâs chairman and chief executive, Alain J. P. Belda, said that the company would not enhance the proposal, which Alcan called inadequate. âWe have studied Alcanâs response and have not seen anything that would lead us to re-evaluate our offer,â Mr. Belda said. He also rejected suggestions by Alcan that Alcoa would have difficulty obtaining antitrust approval for the merger and urged Alcanâs board to resume its examination of the bid.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  , the world's biggest miner, is in talks with private equity firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S. aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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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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Alcan Inc. has begun negotiating  toward a merger agreement with Rio Tinto PLC to fend off a  hostile bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc., Canada&#39;s the Globe and  Mail newspaper reported on its Web site.
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Global miner Rio Tinto was near a deal  to buy Canadian aluminum giant Alcan Inc. for about $100 per  share, or $37 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported  on Thursday.
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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.