It is almost a year since BHP Billiton abandoned its $62bn pursuit of Rio Tinto and... people are starting to speculate. Earlier this week, the Australian Financial Review asked whether BHP might bid again if the proposed iron...
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AAP Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Sam Walsh says the mining giant has not heard of any objections from the European Commission to its proposed iron ore production joint venture with BHP Billiton Ltd in Western Australia's...
XAVIER LA CANNA November 9, 2009 - 5:49PM AAP Resources giant BHP Billiton Ltd has a new window of opportunity to make a fresh bid for rival Rio Tinto Ltd, after it abandoned a takeover move last year. BHP Billiton will again...
XAVIER LA CANNA November 9, 2009 - 5:49PM AAP Resources giant BHP Billiton Ltd has a new window of opportunity to make a fresh bid for rival Rio Tinto Ltd, after it abandoned a takeover move last year. BHP Billiton will again...
Peter Stiff: Market report Shares in Rio Tinto were in demand yesterday after Citigroup talked up the chances of BHP Billiton making another bid. The broker said that Rio, up 43p at £29.17, was still the deal that made most...
Shares in Rio Tinto rose 43p to £29.17 on growing talk that BHP Billiton might take another stab at swallowing up its rival miner once it is allowed to do so at the end of this month. BHP, up 3.5p at 1703.5p, backed out of its...
It's almost a year ago since BHP Billiton pulled out of its bid for rival Rio Tinto , and there is growing speculation that it might want another tilt at the company. After all, it has huge firepower but has not made any major...