Goldcorp Agrees to Buy Wheaton River
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc.   plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd   for &#36;2.09 billion in stock, marking further consolidation in the mining industry, the companies said Sunday in a statement.
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TORONTO (CP) - Freed from the threat of a takeover by the world&#39;s largest silver producer, Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. will continue to grow by acquiring gold mines around the world, the company&#39;s chairman
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The James River Group, a property and casualty insurer, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group for $575 million in cash.
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TORONTO -- One of Canada&#39;s largest and best-known miners, Noranda Inc., is in exclusive talks to be acquired by a Chinese metals producer, the two companies confirmed Friday.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. (G.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (GG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd (WRM.
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12/6/04- There&#39;s a big deal in the gold-mining business. Goldcorp is buying its Canadian gold-mining competitor Wheaton River Minerals for about 2 billion dollars in stock.
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Real estate investment trust Spirit Finance Corp.  said on Tuesday it would be acquired by a consortium led by Australia's Macquarie Bank Ltd.  for about $1.6 billion.
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The Motley Fool - Here's something you don't see every day -- the continuing brouhaha between Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - News) being a notable exception. South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Company (NYSE: HMY - News) has announced a hostile takeover bid to acquire fellow South African miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI - News). The transaction, if it takes place, would be an all-stock acquisition, with Harmony issuing 1.275 new shares in payment for each share of Gold Fields. The deal would value Gold Fields at more than &#36;8 billion. ...
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Alcoa Inc. is part of a three-company consortium that will buy a major natural-gas pipeline in Australia for $1.3 billion. The consortium, which includes Diversified Utility &amp; Energy Trusts (DUET) and Alinta
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AWB Ltd., Australia&#39;s monopoly wheat exporter, won a contract worth about A$340 million ($267 million) to supply China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Another Australian mining company is destined for foreign ownership after Canada&#39;s LionOre Mining International Ltd.
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TORONTO (CP) - Glamis Gold of Reno, Nev., is planning a takeover bid for Goldcorp Inc. of Toronto - but only if Goldcorp drops its $2.4-billion-Cdn offer for another Canadian firm, made in early December.
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Unicco Service Co., a Newton company that offers janitorial and property-management services, is being bought by United Group Ltd. of Australia for $408 million.
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The travel reservation company agreed Monday night to be sold to Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group.
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Goldcorp and Glamis Gold agreed to a friendly merger worth about $21.3 billion.
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Canada's Goldcorp Inc. G.TO GG.N   said on Thursday it will acquire U.S.-based Glamis Gold Ltd.   GLG.TO GLG.N for about $8.6 billion in stock, a deal that   will catapult it firmly into the ranks of senior gold   producers.
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Ionics Inc., a Watertown water treatment company with global operations, agreed to be purchased yesterday by General Electric Co. for $1.1 billion in cash.