Goldcorp to buy Glamis in $8.6 bln deal
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Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. agreed   on Thursday to acquire Glamis Gold Ltd. for about $8.6 billion   in stock to create one of the world's largest gold mining   companies.
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Goldcorp Inc., Canada&#39;s fourth-largest gold producer, has agreed to buy Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. for $1.8 billion in stock, giving Goldcorp its first assets outside of North America, Chief Executive Robert R. McEwen said.
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Goldcorp and Glamis Gold agreed to a friendly merger worth about $21.3 billion.
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Wachovia said on Thursday that it would buy A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion in cash and stock, forming the second-largest retail stock brokerage firm in the United States after Merrill Lynch.
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U.S. bank Wachovia Corp.  on  Thursday said it would buy A.G. Edwards Inc.  for about  $6.8 billion in cash and stock to create the second-largest  retail brokerage in the United States.
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RENO-- Vancouver-based Goldcorp and Toronto gold-producer Wheaton River Minerals have scheduled a telephone conference Monday morning to announced that Goldcorp will buy Wheaton River for $2.09 billion in stock.
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Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. will   acquire Glamis Gold Ltd. in a stock transaction worth $21.3   billion to create one of the world's largest gold mining   companies, the firms said on Thursday.
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Cable mogul John Malone moved to consolidate his holdings on Tuesday, announcing that Liberty Media International agreed to buy the rest of cable provider UnitedGlobalCom Inc. for about &#36;3.5 billion.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. (G.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (GG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd (WRM.
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World number six gold miner Harmony Gold on Monday announced that it had secured 10.8 percent of shares in world number four gold miner Gold Fields as a result of its early settlement offer, which closed at 12h00 on Friday.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton and Alcoa, the world's largest aluminium producer, have agreed to sell their metal services joint venture Integris Metals for 660 million dollars (359 million pounds) including debt, a joint statement said.
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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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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- South African mining group Harmony (UK:HRM) said it would &quot;shortly post&quot; a proposed $8.1 billion, stock-based takeover of South African miner Gold Fields (GFI) .
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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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Bank of America said Friday it would purchase embattled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. for $4 billion in an all-stock transaction.
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Gold miner Goldcorp Inc. on Friday said its board is willing to review and evaluate a takeover offer from Glamis Gold Ltd. that would break up its friendly merger agreement with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd.
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British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has said that it had agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds (339 million euros, 451 million dollars) in cash.