Shark trade restriction bid fails
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Attempts to restrict trade in two threatened shark species fail at a conference on endangered species.
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TORONTO (CP) - NHL labour talks were derailed Tuesday after each side rejected the other&#39;s proposal. The talks lasted about 3ÃÂ½ hours.
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ATTEMPTS by mining house Gold Fields attempts to resist rival Harmony&#39;s hostile takeover bid were dealt a major blow yesterday, after a last-minute switch by Sanlam Asset Managers effectively torpedoed its plan to list its international assets in Canada.
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LONDON -- The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. failed for the second time in a year to win control of the London Stock Exchange PLC, revealing yesterday that its $5.3 billion hostile bid had been spurned by the British bourse's shareholders.
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Graham Bradley's appeal against a five-year racing ban is unsuccessful.
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Oct. 12, 2004 - The great white shark won a bid for protection Tuesday as parties to a global wildlife treaty determined the world&#39;s most ferocious deep-sea predator was under threat from excessive and unregulated trade.
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A United Nations forum on endangered species rejected bids on Friday to put in place controls on the multi-million dollar trade in two types of sharks, highly prized for their meat and fins.
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Japan failed in its bid Thursday to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling at the end of a stormy annual meeting of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) and warned it might pull out of the organization.
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Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources has rejected aA$7.4 billion (3 billion pounds) takeover bid from Swiss-based Xstrata, but has left the door open for a higher offer.
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Business & money: Target insurer fails to back bid despite dropping rival's as City anticipates higher offers.
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Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.
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The US stock exchange operator Nasdaq failed to win control of the London Stock Exchange after LSE shareholders decided overwhelmingly against backing a hostile takeover worth 2.9 billion pounds (4.4 billion euros, 5.5 billion dollars).
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The NHL rejected last week's proposal by the players' association and then had its own counteroffer turned down Tuesday during a 3 1/2-hour negotiating session.
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Imperial Chemical Industries, Britainâs largest specialty chemical maker, said today that it had rejected a takeover bid from Akzo Nobel worth Â£7.2 billion, or $14 billion, as too low.
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The international body overseeing wildlife trade may throw a lifeline to the shark popular in fish and chips and the aromatic cedar tree used for fine furniture and humidors, as it considers new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber.
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Japan's proposal to resume commercial hunting of minke whales is rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
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Mining firm Rio Tinto rejects a $147bn hostile takeover offer from rival BHP Billiton.