Cemex snaps up RMC for Â£2.3bn
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RMC Group, the world&#39;s largest maker of ready-mixed concrete, today accepted a Â£2.3bn takeover bid from Mexico&#39;s Cemex, the world&#39;s third-largest cement maker.
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Chemicals maker to repurchase $2B of its shares.
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SABMiller, the worldâs third biggest brewer, poured out a strong interim trading performance yesterday - as it also said it had a potential warchest of up to $2 billion (Â£1.08bn) if a major acquisition opportunity occurred.
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Cemex, the Mexican cement maker, gained a controlling stake in the Rinker Group of Australia, completing its largest acquisition and increasing its share of the United States market with the $14.2 billion deal. In a filing to the Australian stock exchange, Cemex said it had received acceptances from investors holding 50.34 percent of Rinker. The offer for all of Rinkerâs shares expires June 22. Cemex, based in Monterrey, Mexico, had to sweeten its six-month-old unsolicited offer by 22 percent in April to win management approval. Rinker, which is based in Sydney, receives about 80 percent of sales from the United States, where Cemex is already the largest cement company.
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Spain's "El Gordo," the world's biggest  lottery, gave out 2.2 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in Christmas  prizes on Saturday.
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SHARES in WMC Resources surged 36 per cent yesterday after it revealed it had become a takeover target for Swiss mining giant Xstrata.
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London - Mexican cement maker Cemex has agreed to buy British rival RMC Group for about R26.5 billion in cash and debt, the two companies said Monday.
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British utility firm AWG said it had agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds (3.272 billion euros, 4.145 billion dollars) -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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The New York Mercantile Exchange  (NYMEX), the world&#39;s largest energy market, is exploring a sale  for about $14.3 billion, a news agency reported on Friday, as  exchanges worldwide hustle for the best merger partners.
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The pound stayed firm after coming within striking distance of its 26-year dollar high of 2.0653 dollars, hit in July.
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Deutsche Boerse has made a Â£1.3 billion ($2.49 billion) approach for the London Stock Exchange, and the LSE&#39;s rejection of it on Monday left observers doubting a much better offer would emerge.
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Shares in engineering group Jarvis leap more than 16% after it offloads its stake in London underground consortium Tube Lines to Spainish firm Ferrovial.
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The pound breaches $2 - close to record highs - in early trade in Europe on expectations of a UK rate rise.
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Mexico&#39;s far-flung cement giant Cemex is nearing a deal to buy the RMC Group of Britain for $4 billion, two people close to the negotiations said Sunday evening.
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UK mini-conglomerate Novar has unveiled an Â£1.2bn ($2.3bn) bid from Honeywell of the US, a month on from rejecting another offer from Melrose.
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NEW YORK/PARIS  - The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest energy market, is exploring a sale for about $14.3 billion, a news agency reported on Friday, as exchanges worldwide hustle for the best merger partners.
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MARKS &amp; Spencer set the price of its share buyback at 362 pence per share today, in an operation that will see Â£2.3 billion returned to shareholders.