Contact stake a bargain at $1.6b
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Australian energy company Origin bought its 51 per cent stake in Contact Energy at a discount of nearly $200 million, says an independent valuation released yesterday.
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JOHANNESBURG : South Africa&#39;s Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. said it would bid for control of Gold Fields Ltd, valuing it at 8.1 billion dollars (6.
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THE board of investment bank Lazard meets today to consider a float on Wall Street that could value the firm at Â£1.7bn, according to reports.
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Business & money: An emergency loan of Â£1.6bn and speculation about the sub-prime fallout have rocked the bank.
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Business & money: London-based miner says the aluminium producer's board has agreed its $38.1bn offer.
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Bargain hunters may want to keep an eye on this stock.
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ATLANTA -- Penn National Gaming Inc. , the owner of 18 casinos and horse-racing tracks, agreed yesterday to be taken private by buyout firms Fortress Investment Group LLC and Centerbridge Partners LP for $6.1 billion.
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Oracle lifted its purchase offer for PeopleSoft to $24 per share from a previous bid of $21. &quot;This price represents a significant premium to recent trading prices, and is in excess of the 52
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on Thursday it had raised its takeover offer for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $56 per share, or $23.24 billion, above a rival bid of $54 per share from private equity firm Blackstone Group.
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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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The company that owns The Venetian megaresort and a hotel-casino in Macau is aiming at an initial public offering price of $21 a share, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. , the worldâs largest diversified miner, said on Tuesday it would buy back up to A$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) of its shares.
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Argosy Gaming (AGY:NYSE - news - research) jumped in early trading Thursday, after the company agreed to be acquired by Penn National Gaming (PENN:Nasdaq - news - research) in a $1.
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Representatives of the Qatari Investment  Authority have indicated a willingness to pay as much as 15  pounds a share for Nasdaq&#39;s  31 percent stake in the  London Stock Exchange  the Sunday Times newspaper said.
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- Palm Inc.  said it will sell a 25 percent stake to private equity firm Elevation Partners for $325 million, and use the proceeds along with the cash on hand and new debt to pay $9 in cash to stockholders.
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Is the market really overvalued? ALL of it?!? There are 6,000-plus listed companies -- at least one is a bargain.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Signing up China&#39;s biggest construction company, Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (FMG.AU) on Monday inched closer to realizing its A$1.