E.ON ups bid for Endesa to $53bn
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German firm E.ON, the only bidder for Spain's Endesa, has raised its final offer after a lengthy takeover battle.
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UK's biggest energy provider announces price rise for gas and electricity customers
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Spanish utility firm Gas Natural withdraws its bid for Endesa, leaving German firm E.ON as the only contender.
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Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe&#39;s largest stock exchange by market value, made a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer for London Stock Exchange Plc, its second attempt in five years to buy the UK company.
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Deutsche Boerse is ready to make a revised offer for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) that would value it at 1.5 billion pounds (2.12 billion euros, 2.88 billion dollars), the Observer newspaper reported.
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Northern Irish drug maker Warner Chilcott has received a bid approach worth 837 pence per share which values the company at 1.53 billion pounds.
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Britain's Barclays  has raised its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included a cash element as it seeks to regain the initiative in the world's biggest bank takeover battle.
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Enel, an Italian utility, said it had bought a 10 percent stake in Endesa, the Spanish utility, for 4.1 billion euros ($5.4 billion), possibly breaking up an attempt by a German company, E.On, to buy Endesa. Enel, based in Rome, said it had acquired 9.99 percent of Endesa at 39 euros a share, above E.Onâs bid of 38.75 euros and Endesaâs closing price of 38.12 euros. E.On raised its offer for Endesa this month to 41 billion euros ($54.2 billion) and emerged as the leading bidder, ahead of Gas Natural of Spain. It has cleared a number of legal hurdles in a bidding war that has lasted more than a year. Analysts said another bidder, Acciona, also of Spain, might revive its interest in Endesa as a result of Enelâs action.
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British bank Barclays has raised its offer for ABN AMRO to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included some cash, helped by major investment from state authorities in China and Singapore.
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The Italian Treasury has raised 7.5 billion euros ($9.5 billion) from the sale of almost 20 percent of utility company Enel (ENEI.
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The Spanish regulator CNE is to impose conditions on the joint takeover of Spain&#39;s biggest electricity group Endesa by Italian energy group Enel and Spanish construction company Acciona, a Spanish newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The price of crude oil surged to a new intraday high of US&#36;53.42 in European trade Monday, despite assurances from Middle East oil producers that they were committed to bringing the price down as a strike began in Africa's largest exporter.
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A bidding war involving Europeâs three major exchanges was on the cards today after Paris-based Euronext made an approach to rival Deutsche Boerseâs Â£1.35 billion offer for the London Stock Exchange.
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European regulators on Thursday approved the takeover of Spain's largest utility Endesa by Acciona and Italian utility Enel.
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British bank Barclays sweetened its takeover bid for Dutch rival ABN Amro on Monday by including a cash element as part of a revised informal offer worth 67.5 billion euros (93.3 billion dollars).
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Britain&#39;s Barclays  has raised  its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93  billion) and included 37 percent in cash as it seeks to regain  the initiative in the world&#39;s biggest bank takeover battle.
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E.ON, Germany's leading power supplier, unveiled its 2005-2007 investment plan worth 18.7 billion euros (24.8 billion dollars), a third of it set aside for acquisitions.