Canadian Gold Giants Merge
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Canadian gold producers Goldcorp and Wheaton River Minerals are set to create a company with more than 1.1 million ounces of gold production a year.
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Kmart Holding Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. said today that they are merging to form a new retail company called Sears Holdings Corporation that will be the nation&#39;s third largest
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The deal will create a global offshore oil giant Energy firms Statoil and Norsk Hydro have unveiled plans to merge their offshore oil and gas operations, creating a global industry giant.Comment
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Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. will   acquire Glamis Gold Ltd. in a stock transaction worth $21.3   billion to create one of the world's largest gold mining   companies, the firms said on Thursday.
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Canada&#39;s Goldcorp said Sunday it has reached an agreement in principal to buy Wheaton River Minerals in an all-stock deal valued at about $2 billion.
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Some of the fizz is gone from the proposed merger between Molson and Golden, Colo.-based Adolph Coors Co. Molson has had trouble convincing institutional shareholders the Coors deal
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Business & money: Over-50s travel and insurance group to merge with AA after ditching stock market flotation.
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Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell Group said it was merging its Dutch and British holding companies as it seeks to address failings that led to a shock downgrade in proven oil reserves.
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Shareholders of the South African mining company Gold Fields rejected a bid to merge with Iamgold of Toronto Tuesday, a development that shifted investors&#39; focus back to Harmony Gold Mining&#39;s hostile bid for Gold Fields.
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Norilsk Nickel shook up the gold world Monday, backing a hostile takeover bid by one South African company for another that could give it a stake in the world&#39;s largest producer of the precious metal.
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TORONTO (CP) - Glamis Gold of Reno, Nev., is planning a takeover bid for Goldcorp Inc. of Toronto - but only if Goldcorp drops its $2.4-billion-Cdn offer for another Canadian firm, made in early December.
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Penn National Gaming, Inc., and Argosy Gaming Co. say their boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which Penn National will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Argosy Gaming for $2.
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Canada&#39;s Barrick Gold Corp. said Thursday it was acquiring a 9 percent stake in London-based Celtic Resources Holding Ltd. - a deal that potentially gives the Canadian gold giant major clout ahead of next year&#39;s auction of Russia&#39;s biggest gold deposit.
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Harmony Gold Mining, the largest miner of South African gold, made a hostile bid yesterday to acquire Gold Fields Ltd., another South African miner, for 52.
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Denver lost out on becoming headquarters of the world&#39;s seventh-largest gold company Tuesday after shareholders defeated a proposed $2.9 billion international mining merger between Canada&#39;s Iamgold and South Africa-based Gold Fields Ltd.
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Earlier Harmony announced the terms of a proposed merger between it and Gold Fields (GFI), under which Harmony proposes to acquire the entire issued share capital of Gold Fields in exchange for the issue to Gold Fields shareholders of new shares in Harmony
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Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxborough, a pioneering company developing a medical device that could one day enable paralyzed people to control computers and even their own limbs just using thoughts, went public yesterday by merging into the shell of an unsuccessful Canadian mining company.