Macerich to Buy Wilmorite for $1.45 Bln
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Macerich Co. MAC.N on Thursday said  it would buy Wilmorite Properties Inc. and Wilmorite Holdings  L.P. for $1.45 billion in a deal that expands its portfolio of  shopping malls.
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A Dutch steelmaker led by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying U.S.-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4.5 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would make it one of the largest steel companies in the world.
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Vulcan Materials Co. , a maker of highway construction materials, said on Monday it agreed to buy Florida Rock Industries Inc.  in a cash and stock deal worth around $4.6 billion.
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Teck Cominco  said on Tuesday it would buy Aur Resources  in a friendly cash and stock offer worth C$4.1 billion ($3.9 billion) that will significantly boost Teck's copper production.
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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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US buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is buying Masonite International (MHM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (MHM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Canadian-based maker of building products, in an all-cash deal worth C$3.1
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TORONTO (CP) - Shares in Canadian door maker Masonite International Corp. jumped 14 per cent Thursday in the first trading after a US buyout company made a $3.1-billion-Cdn takeover deal for the firm.
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CONCRETE maker RMC is set to be bought by Mexican rival Cemex in a deal valuing it about Â£2.3bn. Directors from both companies have approved the purchase of the world&#39;s biggest maker of ready-mixed cement.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc.   plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd   for &#36;2.09 billion in stock, marking further consolidation in the mining industry, the companies said Sunday in a statement.
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Russian steel maker Severstal (CHMFq.L)  is in negotiations to buy Weirton Steel Corp. of the United  States from Mittal Steel  , Russian paper  Kommersant reported on Friday, without naming its source.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc.  G.TO GG.N plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals  Ltd WRM.TO WHT.A for $2.09 billion in stock, marking  further consolidation in the mining industry, the companies  said Sunday in a statement.
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Reporting by Caroline Jacobs and Mark McSherry PARIS/NEW   YORK  - French oilfield services group Compagnie   Generale de Geophysique is to buy Texas-based Veritas DGC Inc.   in a $3.1 billion deal to merge their seismic businesses, the   companies said on Tuesday.
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BOSTON  - General Electric Co.  will buy Ionics Inc.  for $1.1 billion to build out its water treatment and services business, one of its major growth initiatives, the companies said on Wednesday.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland agreed Monday to buy a majority share of US broker Sempra Commodities for 1.35 billion dollars (991 million euros) as part of a joint venture with parent company Sempra Energy.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Swiss mining conglomerate Xstrata said Monday it offered to buy the entire issued share capital of major Australian mining company WMC Resources for A$7.4 billion ($5.79 billion) in cash.
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Mexican cement giant Cemex SA is buying British-based RMC Group PLC, the world's biggest supplier of ready mixed concrete, in a deal worth some &#36;4.15 billion, the broker for Cemex said Monday.
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SYDNEY/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc has agreed to buy Canadian aluminum company Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion, in a bid to create the world's biggest aluminum company.