E.ON ups bid for Endesa to $53bn
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German firm E.ON, the only bidder for Spain's Endesa, has raised its final offer after a lengthy takeover battle.
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Ryanair Holdings PLC, Europe's largest discount airline, launched a surprise takeover bid Thursday for Irish rival Aer Lingus Group PLC in a deal that would value the formerly state-owned carrier at 1.48 ...Comment
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Northern Irish drug maker Warner Chilcott has received a bid approach worth 837 pence per share which values the company at 1.53 billion pounds.
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PARIS Crude oil prices rose to a record Thursday, reaching $53 for the first time amid continuing disruption to US production and a threat to Nigerian output from worker unrest.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) on Monday, helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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Britain&#39;s Barclays  has raised  its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93  billion) and included 37 percent in cash as it seeks to regain  the initiative in the world&#39;s biggest bank takeover battle.
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The board of Spanish energy group Endesa said it &quot;judged favourably&quot; a takeover of the company by German energy rival E.ON, but stopped short of recommending shareholders accept E.ON's 41-billion-euro (53-billion-dollar) offer.
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A merger between British Airways and the Spanish airline Iberia moved closer yesterday after BA raised Â£425m by selling its stake in Australia&#39;s national carrier Qantas
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British bank Barclays sweetened its takeover bid for Dutch rival ABN Amro on Monday by including a cash element as part of a revised informal offer worth 67.5 billion euros (93.3 billion dollars).
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) discusses a $2bn bid for its Italian counterpart, say sources quoted by Reuters.
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Spanish stock market regulator CNMV said late Tuesday that it had suspended trading in energy firm Endesa following media reports that Italy's Enel is seeking to buy up to 10 percent of the company at 39 euros per share.
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The German bourse reportedly prepares to raise its proposed bid price for the London Stock Exchange to Â£1.5bn.
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The German bourse meets with the LSE amid talk that it will raise its proposed bid price for the London Stock Exchange to Â£1.5bn.
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Just when E.ON thought its long-planned takeover of Endesa was finally in the bag, its dream of creating a European giant appeared under threat again on Wednesday when Italian rival Enel said it was building up a major stake in the Spanish electricity utility.
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A European banking consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Monday ramped up the cash part of its 71.1-billion-euro bid for Dutch group ABN Amro in an attempt to beat a rival offer from Barclays.
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A European banking consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland launched Friday a formal takeover bid for Dutch lender ABN Amro worth 71.1 billion euros (98.2 billion dollars).
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ENDESA (NYSE:ELE) has reached a deal to sell Ericsson Spain 100% of its wholly owned subsidiary Enditel Ingenieria for Euro 4.7 million.