Nasdaq launches $5.3 billion hostile bid for LSE
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Nasdaq  launched a 2.7-billion-pound ($5.3-billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange  on Tuesday, needing just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control.
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NYSE Euronext  and Australia's ASX Ltd  may be interested in buying part of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc's 31 percent stake in London Stock Exchange Plc , a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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NYSE Euronext Inc.   has entered the competition for the Borsa Italiana by submitting a preliminary bid to rival the London Stock Exchange Group's  offer, according to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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LONDON  - A bidding war for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) looked increasingly likely after Euronext said it had approached the group about a possible counterbid to Deutsche Boerse&#39;s 2.0-billion-euro offer.
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The deadline in the Nasdaq's approach to LSE shareholders to accept its proposed takeover bid approaches.
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Shares of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.  fell 5.2 percent on Tuesday to their lowest levels in over a month after the London Stock Exchange  urged shareholders to reject a 2.7 billion pound ($5.27 billion) hostile bid from the largest U.S. electronic stock market.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. formally launched its hostile $5.3 billion takeover bid on Tuesday for the London Stock Exchange Group PLC, which promptly reiterated that the offer is too low and urged its shareholders to take no action on it.
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The London Stock Exchange opened the door to a bidding war for the 300-year-old market after it rejected a proposed Â£1.35bn (â¬1.9bn) offer from Deutsche BÃ¶rse, its German rival.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market faces the task of rebuilding its foreign expansion strategy after the emphatic rejection this weekend of its second unwelcome bid to acquire the London Stock Exchange.
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Shares of the Nasdaq Stock Market  plunged to their lowest levels in over a month after the London Stock Exchange  urged shareholders to reject a 2.7 billion pound ($5.27 billion) hostile bid from the largest U.S. electronic stock market.
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The London Stock Exchange rejects a Â£2.7bn takeover bid from US firm Nasdaq, saying it undervalues its business.
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The London Stock Exchange faces a likely takeover war after Euronext joined the battle for the 200-year-old British institution with a takeover approach pitting it against Germany's Deutsche Boerse.
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Xstrata on Monday launched a hostile bid for the Australian miner WMC Resources in what analysts predicted could turn into an international bidding war as the global hunt for inexpensive resources to supply China intensifies.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.  said  on Thursday it plans to create an equity and index options  market in the third quarter of 2007, pitting it against  arch-rival NYSE Group Inc. , which recently boosted its  presence in the options market.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. will take its sweetened offer for London Stock Exchange Group PLC directly to shareholders after Europe's biggest equity market rejected the bid, saying it substantially undervalues the company.
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Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe&#39;s largest stock exchange by market value, made a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer for London Stock Exchange Plc, its second attempt in five years to buy the UK company.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market  bid  $3.7 billion for Nordic bourse owner OMX  on Friday as  it set its sights on expanding beyond the U.S. market and adds  to a wave of stock market consolidation.