BHP seeks partner for Alcoa bid: paper
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  , the world's biggest miner, is in talks with private equity firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S. aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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SYDNEY/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc   signed a $38.1 billion cash deal to buy Canada's Alcan Inc. , creating the world's biggest aluminum producer, the companies said on Thursday, trumping a hostile offer from Alcoa Inc .
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LONDON/MONTREAL  - Rio Tinto  , the world's second-biggest miner, is considering gate-crashing Alcoa Inc.'s  $28.6 billion hostile bid for Alcan Inc.  , sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  ,  the world's No.1 miner, launched a hostile $147.4 billion bid  for Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc , a deal that would be the  world's second largest takeover if successful.
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Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto launched a 38.1-billion-dollar offer for Canada&#39;s Alcan on Thursday, trumping US rival Alcoa in a mammoth bid to create the world&#39;s largest aluminium company.
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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.
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Alcoa and China's Chinalco are "monitoring developments" after mining giant BHP Billiton's bid for Rio Tinto.
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BHP Billiton has brought in more banks to help it find the $70 billion it needs to fund its planned takeover of Rio Tinto , Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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The Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton will decide whether to bid for US-based aluminum company Alcoa Inc. within two weeks, a newspaper reported yesterday.
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NEW YORK, August 23 (New Ratings) - Alcoa Inc (AA.NYS) and BHP Billiton have announced their plans for an initial public offering filing for their metal processing and distribution joint venture, Integris Metals Corporation.
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc ,  the world&#39;s biggest mining group, has revived plans for a $40  billion takeover of aluminium producer Alcoa Inc., the  Times newspaper said in an unsourced report on Monday.
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The Chinese mining group Chinalco said that it had teamed up with the American aluminum producer Alcoa to buy a 12 percent in Rio Tinto.
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc , the world's biggest mining group, has revived plans for a $40 billion takeover of aluminium producer Alcoa Inc., the Times newspaper said in an unsourced report on Monday.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc   has hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible bid for Canadian aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  , the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK/SYDNEY  - BHP Billiton Ltd. , the world's largest mining group, is considering a bid to rival a $28.7 billion offer for aluminum producer Alcan Inc. , and has hired investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. , sources familiar with the matter said.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer worth $147bn to buy rival Rio Tinto.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc  has hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible bid for Canadian aluminum producer Alcan , the Sydney Morning Herald paper reported on Monday.