HBOS decides not to bid for Abbey
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UK bank HBOS says it will not proceed with an offer for Abbey.
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Banking group HBoS has been given access to Abbey National&#39;s books it emerged yesterday as the owner of the Halifax said it would complain to the European Commission about Banco Santander&#39;s bid for Abbey.
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ABN Amroâs board said Sunday that it would not recommend either of the two takeover offers it had received.
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The London Stock Exchange said Monday that it had rejected a fresh takeover proposal from German rival Deutsche Boerse but has agreed to further talks.
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HBOS has decided against bidding for Abbey National, dampening hopes of a challenge to Spanish bank Santander&#39;s agreed 8.8 billion pound takeover and hitting the target&#39;s shares.
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The board of HBOS is due to decide this week whether to bid against Spanish bank Santander for local rival Abbey National, newspapers say, but HBOS declined to comment.
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The London Stock Exchange  reiterated on Tuesday its rejection of a 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) bid from U.S. rival Nasdaq Stock Market Inc .
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HBOS said it had decided against bidding for the mortgage bank Abbey National, clearing the way for an agreed offer from Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH).
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Wireless telecommunications company Vodafone Group Plc  said it is not planning to bid for Verizon Communications Inc , responding to a report it was considering a $160 billion offer.
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HBOS, the UK&#39;s fifth largest bank, surprised the City yesterday when it announced it would not be making a bid for Abbey National, walking away from what its chief executive, James Crosby, recently
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch appears to say he is not interested in launching a rival takeover bid for Yahoo.
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HBOS yesterday appealed to the European competition authorities to examine the relationship between Royal Bank of Scotland and Banco Santander Central Hispano, the Spanish bank which has bid Â£8bn for Abbey National.
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If James Crosby, chief executive of HBOS, has any lingering doubts about the decision to drop plans to bid for Abbey National and instead go for organic growth, then he should take heart from the following story.
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HBOS, based in Edinburgh, said last month it was considering making an offer for Abbey after Santander, Spain s biggest lender, agreed to buy the London-based bank in Europe s biggest-ever cross- border bank ...
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has rejected a proposed offer for the company from Deutsche Boerse valued at 530 pence per share in cash.
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HBOS questioned yesterday the impartiality of the European Union&#39;s competition commissioner, Mario Monti, after he made comments that appeared to be favourable to a bid for Abbey National by the Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano.
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Cable firm NTL  has dropped plans to bid for ITV  after its 4.7-billion-pound ($9.3 billion) proposal was rejected by the British broadcaster and rival BSkyB  swooped to take a blocking stake in ITV.