BHP Billiton 'preparing hostile bid for Rio Tinto'
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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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BHP Billiton shareholders are about to be rewarded directly from the torrents of cash coursing through the giant resources group. Perversely, that may make some of them quite unhappy.
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Alcan Inc. has begun negotiating toward a merger agreement with Rio Tinto PLC to fend off a hostile bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc., Canada's the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on its Web site.
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Business & money: BHP raises shares offer to Â£70bn mega deal, but China and Australia may fight potential monopoly
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Anglo-Australian mining group BHP Billiton has said it had made an offer to workers at its Spence copper mine in Chile in a bid to avoid another damaging strike.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  ,  the world&#39;s biggest miner, is in talks with private equity  firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S.  aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer to buy its rival Rio Tinto.
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Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  on Thursday hit back at rival BHP Billiton's hostile approach, playing up its independent growth prospects amid renewed speculation of a Chinese-backed counter bid.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  , the world's No.1 miner, formally launched a $147.4 billion takeover bid on Wednesday for rival Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc .
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Swiss-based miner Xstrata says it will take its A$7.4 billion (3.1 billion pound) bid for Australia&#39;s WMC Resources directly to the company&#39;s shareholders, effectively making a hostile bid after WMC&#39;s management rejected its offer
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The chairman of mining company Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  wrote to shareholders on Sunday, urging them to take no action on a bid for the company by rival miner BHP Billiton .
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LONDON/SYDNEY  - BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  , the world's biggest miner, is in talks with private equity firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S. aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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Rio Tinto , which is fighting  off a takeover approach from rival BHP Billiton , said  on Monday it would spend $71 million on a study to expand its  Hope Downs iron ore mine in Australia.
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NEW YORK/SYDNEY  - BHP Billiton Ltd. , the world's largest mining group, is considering a bid to rival a $28.7 billion offer for aluminum producer Alcan Inc. , and has hired investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. , sources familiar with the matter said.
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Xstrata yesterday threatened to withdraw its hostile Â£2.9 billion takeover offer for WMC if the Australian miner indicated it would dilute value by paying out up to A$1 billion in cash to shareholders.
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The world&#39;s biggest miner, BHP Billiton, was tightlipped Monday on reports that it is considering making a 50 billion US dollar takeover bid for US aluminium giant Alcoa Inc.
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Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  said  it would spend US$793 million as its share of the cost to  extend the Kestrel coal mine in Australia, as it looks to  internal growth to fight off an unwanted approach from rival  BHP Billiton.