Total takeover of Shell? Analysts aren't buying it
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Amid speculation the French oil group Total could attempt a hostile takeover of rival Royal Dutch/Shell, remarks by a top Total executive and market analysts suggest the time is not right for such a move.
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LONDON (AP-CP) - Royal Dutch/Shell Group said today it will spend $45 billion (US) and sell up to $12 billion worth of assets to reinvigorate its underperforming oil and natural gas business.
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Despite the overwhelming number of shares tendered to Oracle, the target&#39;s board won&#39;t budge. Final stop: A proxy battle? Larry Ellison &amp; Co.
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The great debate over the impact of Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft has all the big industry analyst organizations weighing in. However, in most of the analysis one group's opinion seems to have been overlooked: that of PeopleSoft users.
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the third largest publicly traded oil company, plans to raise spending to $15 billion a year, sell assets and cut costs in a bid to regain investor confidence after overstating oil reserves for six years.
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Corporate takeovers are often profitable for investors, so why stop them?
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Oil major Royal Dutch Shell is on the brink of a deal to bring Russian gas monopoly Gazprom into the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project, a spokesman said on Sunday.
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Underperforming U.S. aluminum giant  Alcoa  is ripe for takeover, and analysts see Australian  resource companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto as likely  predators.
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Oil major Royal Dutch Shell  is on the brink of a deal to bring Russian gas monopoly Gazprom  into the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project, a spokesman said on Sunday.
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Sure, the PeopleSoft board told shareholders to just say no. This battle will go down to the wire, and even afterward Ellison could prevail.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- PeopleSoft&#39;s arsenal of takeover defenses isn&#39;t expected to include a big rival to Oracle. Free!
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LONDON The corporate restructuring of the RoyalDutch/Shell Group is one of the year&#39;s largest financial transactions. Controversy is building in London over the answer to that question, illustrating yet again
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Like companies that buy back their own shares? You may not be getting what you think.
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The huge corporate reorganization of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group is one of the year&#39;s largest financial transactions. But is it really a merger?
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Investors might want to wait a while as this company digests its large acquisition.
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British oil giant Shell announced that its Belgian arm had agreed to sell its stakes in two Belgian gas companies to utility group Suez-Tractebel in deals worth a total of around 380.4 million euros (460 million dollars).
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LONDON : Royal Dutch/Shell announced radical plans to merge its separate holding companies in an overhaul of its corporate governance structures after a review triggered by its oil reserves scandal.