Rio Tinto rejects $147bn BHP bid
317683
Mining firm Rio Tinto rejects a $147bn hostile takeover offer from rival BHP Billiton.
118624
Plans for a huge mine in northern Peru are rejected in a referendum amid fears for the environment.
561192
If BHP Billiton's new chief executive Marius Kloppers eventually walks away from his bold proposal to buy rival mining titan Rio Tinto, and that's a big if, it won't be for lack of trying.
239798
MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  offered $38.1 billion to buy Canada's Alcan Inc in an agreed deal to create the world's No. 1 aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc
315639
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer worth $147bn to buy rival Rio Tinto.
678207
The British government has rejected a  400 million pound ($749.5 million) bid for British Nuclear  Group Ltd. (BNG) from U.S. engineering and construction firm  Fluor Corp. , the Independent on Sunday said.
513589
Business & money: Rio Tinto strengthens claim that its rival BHP Biliton's hostile bid is undervalued
479730
South African gold producer Gold Fields has rejected a $8.2bn (Â£4.5bn) bid by rival Harmony which would have created the world&#39;s largest gold company.
605569
BHP Billiton formally launched a $147.4 billion hostile takeover bid for rival miner Rio Tinto.
273049
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton says it is offering to buy rival Rio Tinto in a deal worth about Â£75bn.
617391
BHP increased its takeover offer to about $147 billion after a Chinese rival bought a stake in Rio Tinto last week.
650406
Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources Ltd (WMR.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) rejected aA$7.4 billion ($5.5 billion) takeover bid
226481
British chemicals and paints group Imperial Chemical Industries said on Monday that it had rejected a takeover bid worth 7.2 billion pounds (10.7 billion euros, 14.3 billion dollars) from its larger Dutch rival Akzo Nobel.
453240
Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources rejected aA$7,4bn takeover bid from Xstrata, but left the door open for a higher offer, which sent its shares soaring.
721960
China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denied the Chinese government would mount a legal challenge against BHP Billiton's  proposal to take over rival Australian miner Rio Tinto .
293612
Chemicals group Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) said on Monday that it had rejected a takeover offer of 7.2 billion pounds from Dutch rival Akzo Nobel.
217456
Software company Peoplesoft has formally rejected a takeover bid from rival Oracle for a sixth time. The rejection came after about 61% of shareholders in the California-based business software firm backed Oracle&#39;s $9.2bn (Â£4.9bn) approach.