Xstrata Plans to Bid A$7.4 Billion for WMC Resources
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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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Qwest Communications International  Inc. Q.N offered more than $7 billion for MCI Inc. MCIP.O,  topping an earlier bid by Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N,  Bloomberg News said on Sunday.
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Alltel, the nation's sixth-largest wireless carrier, is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless for roughly $4 billion.
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RESOURCES giant Xstrata announced its first triumph in its $7.4 billion takeover bid for WMC Resources yesterday - the purchase of 173,954 shares.
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Xstrata PLC, the world's third-largest copper producer, said Tuesday it will raise 2.9 billion pounds ($5.47 billion) in a special equity offering to help finance its takeover of Canadian mining company Falconbridge Ltd.
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Brazilian mining giant Vale said on Monday it has held takeover talks with Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata, which analysts said could lead to deal worth more than $100 billion.
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Brazilian mining giant Vale  said on Monday it has held talks with Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata  about a potential acquisition that have yet to lead to a formal bid.
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SINGAPORE Ever since WMC Resources rejected Xstrata&#39;s $5.8 billion takeover offer last month, saying it was insufficient, WMC&#39;s chief executive, Andrew Michelmore, has been saying that there was more to his company than meets the eye.
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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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Brazilian mining giant Vale said  Monday it was in talks with Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata about a  takeover, a deal that analysts said could top $100 billion in  one of the biggest mergers ever.
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MINER and takeover target WMC Resources today forecast a record profit for 2004 and unveiled plans to hand back $1 billion in cash to shareholders.
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WMC Resources Ltd., which is fighting a takeover bid from Xstrata Plc, will give as much as A$1 billion ($760 million) of cash to shareholders as the world&#39;s fifth-largest nickel producer forecast higher-than-expected profit.
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Australia's competition body says it would not oppose Swiss mining giant Xstrata's proposed take-over of Australian rival WMC Resources.
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Mining giant Xstrata tables a bid for Australian nickel producer Jubilee Mines for 3bn Australian dollars ($2.8bn; Â£1.34bn).
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Xstrata on Monday launched a hostile bid for the Australian miner WMC Resources in what analysts predicted could turn into an international bidding war as the global hunt for inexpensive resources to supply China intensifies.
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The chief executive of WMC Resources has denied the company&#39;s share buyback and the sale of part of its business is designed to undermine a takeover offer from Swiss-based Xstrata.
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Stockland, Australia&#39;s fourth-biggest property trust, offered to buy General Property Trust for A$7.5 billion ($5.7 billion) in stock in an attempt to foil a rival bid by Lend Lease Corp.