Buyback will cost BHP $1.5b
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BHP Billiton&#39;s Australian investors will collect $1.5 billion from a buyback announced by the global miner yesterday. But the move will leave foreigners with a stronger presence on the BHP share register because they can&#39;t participate.
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LONDON, October 25  - Marks &amp; Spencer (MA6.ETR) has claimed robust investor demand for its Â£2.3 billion share buyback programme, which has been priced above the market expectations at 362p per share.
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Finnish-Swedish telecommunications group TeliaSonera revealed on Wednesday a plan to buy back 1.1 billion euros worth of shares.
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MARKS &amp; Spencer set the price of its share buyback at 362 pence per share today, in an operation that will see Â£2.3 billion returned to shareholders.
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Gold Fields will be expected to sell its international assets valued at up to $3.5 billion and return the cash to shareholders as part of its defence against a hostile all-share bid from rival gold producer Harmony.
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This will be accomplished through a share buy-back plan in Australia, where 40% of the company&#39;s shares are held. because of the tax breaks they enjoy on such sales.
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Telstra Corp has announced a $750 million off-market share buy-back as part of its capital management program. Telstra expects to return $1.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Trying to derail Xstrata Plc.&#39;s (XTA.LN) hostile takeover bid, WMC Resources Ltd. (WMR.AU) Thursday said it will return up to A$1 billion to shareholders
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Anglo-Aussie miner BHP Billiton (BHP) (UK:BLT) climbed 2.8 percent to lead FTSE 100 components after it increased its share buyback to A$2.27 billion (US$1.78 billion) from the A$1 billion to A$1.5 billion it had predicted it would buy
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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 miner, will buy back as much as A$1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) of its Australian stock as part of a plan to return profit from soaring commodity prices to investors.
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As it reported results on Tuesday, the Vodafone Group, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone operator, said that it would double dividends and increase a share buyback program by Â£1 billion ($1.9 billion).
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A $7.4 billion takeover bid for the Australian mining company WMC Resources has seen its share price surge by 36 per cent. The Swiss-based mining house Xstrata wants to add WMC Resources to its Australian mining portfolio.
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Standard Chartered has agreed to buy US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) worth of loans from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) to beef up its project finance operation.
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NIGERIAâS senate is reportedly to ask a Shell division to pay $1.5 billion (Â£835 million) compensation to oilfield communities for environmental damage.
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MELBOURNE: BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc, the world&#39;s largest diversified miner, said yesterday it would buy back up to A$1.5bil of its Australia-listed shares at a discount to the market price.
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Australian building products group, James Hardie, agrees to pay $1.1bn to sufferers of asbestos-related diseases.