Rio Tinto rejects $147bn BHP bid
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Alcoa and China's Chinalco are "monitoring developments" after mining giant BHP Billiton's bid for Rio Tinto.
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BHP increased its takeover offer to about $147 billion after a Chinese rival bought a stake in Rio Tinto last week.
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BHP Billiton sweetened its hostile takeover bid for Rio Tinto on Wednesday by lifting its valuation of the mining giant to 147.4 billion dollars as it seeks to exploit a resources boom driven by China.
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British brewer Scottish and Newcastle on Thursday rejected a takeover bid from Denmark's Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken worth 6.8 billion pounds (9.7 billion euros, 13.9 billion dollars).
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SYDNEY: Directors of Australian mining giant WMC Resources Ltd. have rejected a renewed A$7.4b (US$5.7b) takeover offer from British-Swiss Xstrata Plc.
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China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denied the Chinese government would mount a legal challenge against BHP Billiton's  proposal to take over rival Australian miner Rio Tinto .
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South African gold producer Gold Fields rejects a $8.2bn bid by rival Harmony, saying the offer is not attractive.
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BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, is preparing a hostile bid for peer Rio Tinto whose board has turned down a friendly approach worth billions of US dollars, British newspapers said Sunday.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - Britain's biggest chemicals firm, Imperial Chemical Industries Plc , has rejected a 7.2 billion-pound ($14.2 billion) takeover approach from Akzo Nobel NV , saying it undervalued the company.
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Swedish truckmaker Scania AB on Friday formally rejected a 10.3 billion euro ($13.3 billion) takeover bid by German rival MAN AG, saying the offer was too low.
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TELEFÃNICA, the Spanish telecoms group, is understood to have rejected a bid of at least â¬2 billion (Â£1.4 billion) for its Endemol television production company, which is behind Big Brother.
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OSLO/KUALA LUMPUR  - Norwegian aluminum group Norsk Hydro  and global miner Rio Tinto   declined to confirm or deny reports that they may place separate bids for Canada's Alcan .
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MELBOURNE - Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources rejected aA$7,4bn takeover bid from Xstrata, but left the door open for a higher offer, which sent its shares soaring.
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Gold Fields Ltd. rejected an $8.1 billion takeover bid by smaller rival Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd. as inadequate on Monday, despite the support of its largest stakeholder.
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WMC, the Australian mining firm, turns down a $5.5bn bid from Swiss company Xstrata but says it is willing to hold talks on a deal.
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If BHP Billiton's new chief executive Marius Kloppers walks away from his bold proposal to buy rival mining titan Rio Tinto, and that's a big if, it won't be for lack of trying.
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Gold Fields Ltd. (GFI) said it rejected a takeover bid by Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. to create the world&#39;s leading gold mining group, saying it was not in its interests.