Scor buys 32.9 percent of Converium and makes hostile bid
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Swiss reinsurance group Converium has said that it had rejected a takeover offer worth 1.9 billion euros from French company Scor.
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Private equity firm Fortress  Investment Group LLC agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for  $677 million only a few months after the oil tanker operator  fended off a hostile bid from its rival, OMI Corp. OMM.N,  Stelmar said on Monday.
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The Swiss mining company Xstrata began a hostile $5.8 billion bid for the Australian mining company WMC Resources yesterday, in what analysts said could turn into an international bidding war
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Nasdaq  launched its 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange  on Tuesday, needing just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control.
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The success of Oracle Corp&#39;s (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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The Nasdaq reveals a Â£2.7bn  hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc NDAQ.O is   considering making a hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange   LSE.L, in which it has amassed a stake of over 25 percent,   weekly UK newspaper The Observer said on Sunday, without citing   any sources.
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Oracle raised its hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft today to $24 a share from $21 a share. The higher bid, which values Peoplesoft at $9.
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Xstrata Plc, the world&#39;s biggest exporter of coal for power plants, will make a hostile A$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) cash offer for WMC Resources Ltd.
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A large shareholder of Ceridian Corp.   said it does not support the sale of the company to a  consortium of buyers as the price offered was low.
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German industrial group MAN AG   MANG.DE unveiled a 9.6 billion euro ($12.2 billion)   cash-and-share offer for Scania AB SCVb.ST, which the Swedish   truckmaker and a key shareholder immediately rejected on   Monday.
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Tata Steel topped an offer from Brazilâs Companhia SiderÃºrgica Nacional to win a heated auction for its European rival, the Corus Group.
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The US electronic stock exchange Nasdaq spread its arms around northern Europe on Friday with an agreed bid worth 2.7 billion euros for OMX which operates seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges.
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Rio Tinto Group agreed yesterday to buy Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion in cash, overwhelming a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc. to form the world's biggest aluminum maker.
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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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CALGARY - The sale price of the federal government&#39;s final 19 per cent stake in Petro-Canada has been set at $64.50 per share, about $3 higher than indicated in a preliminary prospectus last week.
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Business & money: Shares in world's largest miner down almost 6% in London after hostile Â£75bn takeover bid for Rio Tinto