Huntsman says Hexion bid superior, notifies Basell
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U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp.   said on Friday the $6 billion buyout offer from Apollo  Management&#39;s Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. is superior to the  previously accepted deal offered by Basell .
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NEW YORK, December 31  - Analysts at DA Davidson reiterate their &quot;neutral&quot; rating on Hormel Foods (HRL.NYS), while raising their estimates for the company.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more  attractive offer for Sweden's Scania (SCVb.ST), the Wall Street  Journal on Friday quoted MAN  Chief Executive Hakan  Samuelsson as saying.
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Speculation of a bidding war drove   the shares in Australia's Vision Systems Ltd. VSL.AX up well   above the most recent offer on Wednesday, as a third company   said it was looking at buying the diagnostics firm.
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Archipelago Holdings, US owner of ArcaEx, the world's largest electronic stock market, is leading the race to buy Instinet, an electronic brokerage owned by the British news and information giant Reuters.
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Embattled U.S. shopping mall owner Mills Corp.  said on Tuesday a roughly $1.56 billion takeover offer from Simon Property Group Inc.  and Farallon Capital Management is superior to a rival bid by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. .
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By Antonio Ligi and Choy Leng Yeong Bloomberg News  Shares of Clariant AG, the world's second-largest maker of specialty chemicals, and Ciba Specialty Chemicals AG surged after Handelszeitung reported that Huntsman Corp. considers both companies takeover candidates.
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Taser International Inc. TASR.O  shares were up more than 6 percent in premarket trading on  Tuesday after the stun gun maker said it had received orders  totaling more than $1 million.
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Basell will buy a U.S. chemical company, the Huntsman Corporation, for $5.6 billion to strengthen its position as a global chemicals group.
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Multiple bids could drive the company's stock even higher.
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Mall owner Mills Corp.  said on Tuesday a $1.56 billion takeover offer from Simon Property Group Inc.  and Farallon Capital Management is superior to a rival bid by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. .
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FOSTER&#39;S Group chief executive Trevor O&#39;Hoy has defended the handling of last year&#39;s sale of Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality ahead of likely attacks on the Foster&#39;s board at today&#39;s annual meeting in Melbourne.
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U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp , which has agreed to a $5.6 billion takeover, said on Wednesday it had received an approach at $27.25 per share from an affiliate of U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management.
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Credit Suisse shares rose on Tuesday amid hopes Switzerland&#39;s second-largest financial group will step up the pace of restructuring, prompted by a report that it
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Call option activity in Kraft Foods Inc.  surged on Thursday on speculation that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.   is interested in the largest U.S. food company.
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Credit Suisse First Boston said that an announcement from Onyx Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: ONXX - news - people ) is &quot;good news&quot; for Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) and its Avastin treatment.
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By Bloomberg News  Salt Lake-based Huntsman Corp., the fifth-biggest U.S. chemical maker, declared a quarterly dividend of 10 cents a share, marking its first payout.  The dividend is payable on March 30 to shareholders of record as of March 15, Huntsman said Wednesday.