Origin&#39;s NZ$3.2 Billion Offer for Contact Too Low
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Origin Energy Ltd., Australia&#39;s second-largest energy retailer, probably won&#39;t increase its stake in Contact Energy Ltd. much above the 51 percent it has already agreed to buy after
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By Bill Condie, Evening Standard, London  Feb. 16--The sale process for deeply-troubled IT provider iSoft could be  salvaged by an Australian bidder.
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Overcomes seven year itch to sign Â£14m contract The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced a Â£14m contract with Atos Origin for IT services.â¦
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the price is US$29 for the six-pack, by the way -- to make much of a dent in the $8.3 billion company&#39;s bottom line. But dozens of
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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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AIR New Zealand faces being further squeezed on trans-Tasman fares as a result of the ban on its planned alliance with Qantas. Industry analysts last night dismissed claims that Air NZ and Qantas could still work together using informal ties.
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Take-Two Interactive posts another loss. Will a restructuring plan save the day?
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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US telecoms company MCI has seen its third quarter loss balloon to $3.4bn (Â£1.8bn) after a price war forced it to reduce the value of its assets.
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Singapore International Airline&#39;s (SIA) selldown of its 6.3 per cent stake in Air New Zealand, announced yesterday, seems to have been well anticipated by the sharemarket.
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British investment fund Terra Firma said Thursday it had attracted only 3.6 percent of the capital of British record label EMI with its takeover offer, worth 3.2 billion pounds (4.8 billion euros).
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The downgrade, which affects some $4bn of preferred stock, will make it more expensive for Fannie to raise money in the capital markets if it sells preferred stock to help meet its new capital requirements.
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French reinsurer Scor  grabbed hold of a third of its rival Converium , but the Swiss firm rejected a full takeover offer that valued its business at 3.1 billion Swiss francs ($2.51 billion).
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The company talks down a recent inexplicable stock run-up.
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British bank Barclays&#39; bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro is too low compared to the consortium bid, ABN Amro chairman Rijkman Groenink told a shareholders meeting Thursday.
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Company exec's post-launch spiel published too soon, it seems
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The company has been rebuffed in Australia as it tries to grow.