BHP seeks partner for Alcoa bid: report
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LONDON/SYDNEY  - 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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Alcan Inc.   has begun negotiating a $34 billion friendly offer from Rio Tinto PLC  to fend off a hostile $28.6 billion bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc. , newspapers said on Wednesday.
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Alcan Inc. has begun negotiating toward a merger agreement with Rio Tinto PLC to fend off a hostile bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc., Canada's the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on its Web site.
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SHANGHAI, China -- Alcoa Inc. and Aluminum Corp. of China jointly acquired 12 percent of the shares of global mining company Rio Tinto PLC in a deal believed to be worth $14.05 billion, the companies said Friday.
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China teams up with US aluminium giant Alcoa to buy a 12% stake in mining firm Rio Tinto for $14.05bn.
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BHP Billiton Limited (BHP) today announced it has agreed to sell its interests in the Laminaria and Corallina oil fields to Paladin Oil &amp; Gas (Australia) Pty Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Paladin Resources plc, an independent oil and gas company
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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 stake in Rio Tinto.
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Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco said Friday it and US peer Alcoa have bought a 12-percent stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, setting up a possible takeover tussle with rival BHP Billiton.
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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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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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Financial Times publisher Pearson Plc  is seeking partners to make a possible bid for Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , the Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.
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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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China has muscled in on the miner BHP Billitonâs attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto, with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with American group Alcoa to buy a 12 percent stake.
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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 , the world's second-biggest miner, is considering gatecrashing Alcoa Inc.'s  $28 billion hostile bid for North American rival Alcan Inc. , sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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GLOBAL miner BHP Billiton Ltd and the world&#39;s largest aluminium producer, Alcoa Inc, plan to raise up to $US100 million ($138 million) in calendar 2004 by selling shares in their metal-processing
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, and Alcoa Inc. said they plan to sell shares in their metal-processing and distribution venture.