Buyout Group Would Ax Coal Plants
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By Felicity Barringer and Andrew Ross Sorkin  Matthew L. Wald contributed reporting.
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Mining group BHP Billiton   is set for a make-over if it manages to gobble up Rio Tinto , jettisoning a range of mines to focus on core operations.
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An investment group is expected to announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion (2.2 billion pounds, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc  , the world's biggest mining group, has revived plans for a $40 billion takeover of aluminium producer Alcoa Inc. , the Times newspaper said in an unsourced report on Monday.
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Troubled British Energy seeks to delist from the stock market as it fights opposition to its restructuring plan by rebel shareholders.
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An investment group is expected to  announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water  utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion, a source  familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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Dynegy Inc. (DYN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said it would buy a package of power plants from Exelon Corp. (EXC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in New York
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Lazard's board is set to meet to consider  a sale of shares to the public that could end a long history of  private ownership at the independent investment bank and  possibly buy out the bank's founding family.
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ThyssenKrupp, the German engineering group buoyed by soaring steel prices, sold off a core element of its philanthropic past yesterday by disposing of its entire stock of company homes for employees for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.45bn).
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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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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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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, and Alcoa Inc. said they plan to sell shares in their metal-processing and distribution venture.
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Northern Rock shareholders are set to grill bosses over its sale process, as ministers consider nationalisation.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Feb. 11--Coal, the source of half of the nation's power, has a dirty reputation with environmentalists. But a plant that Tampa Electric Co.
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TXU, the largest energy provider in Texas, agreed last night to a $45 billion buyout that would not only be the largest private-equity deal in history but would also feature an unusual twist: The buyers have promised environmental groups they would cancel a slew of coal-fired power plants on the firm's drawing boards....
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Emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling this week that could force utility companies to upgrade aging coal-fired power plants, Georgia environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to clean up one of the nation's largest coal plants.
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Xstrata Plc, the world&#39;s biggest exporter of coal for power plants, will make a hostile A$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) cash offer for WMC Resources Ltd.