J Sainsbury shares jumped as much as 10 per cent on Thursday on talk that Qatar's sovereign wealth fund was planning a renewed offer for the British grocer after dropping a previous bid proposal in 2007.
Shimao Property Holdings Limited<0813>, a Shanghai-based property developer founded by Chinese billionaire Xu Rongmao, has won the bid for a piece of land in Xiamen, Fujian Province yesterday.Shimao Property will pay RMB 709 million for the land parcel in Siming District in the city, which has a designed...
Shin Kong Life Insurance Co, Taiwan's third-largest life insurer by assets, has won the bid for a piece of commercial land in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, sources reported. Shin Kong will pay NT$5.36 billion for the land lot which covers an area of over 4300 sq m. The price is 3.7 times that of the ask price,...
* Judge to decide whether to include Balsillie bid * Owners, league opposed to Balsillie * Auction scheduled for Sept. 10 (Recasts lead, adds quotes from judge, lawyers, adds Phoenix to dateline) NEW YORK/PHOENIX Sept...
* Issue should be set aside in tanker competition * Trade cases were not considered last time (Adds details from Northrop teleconference) WASHINGTON, Sept 1 - Northrop Grumman Corp said on Tuesday a preliminary World...
DUBLIN, Aug 11 - Ireland's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a ruling by a lower court which in July refused Liam Carroll protection from creditors for his property empire, causing a potential complication for Dublin's...
RIO Tinto has admitted working on a Plan B to address its debt burden should its controversial $US19.5 billion ($28 billion) alliance with Chinalco fail. Chief financial officer Guy Elliott said yesterday Rio Tinto ...
Sinopec Group, parent of Sinopec<600028><0386><SNP>, the largest refiner in Asia by capacity, and U.S. private equity investment firm TPG are not considering bidding for a stake in bankrupt Dutch chemical firm LyondellBasell Industries, according to Huang Wensheng, a spokesman of the Chinese oil giant.Huang...
HOUSTON, Nov 25 - U.S. natural gas company Chesapeake Energy Corp, its joint venture partner Statoil ASA and the oil and gas arm of Sasol Ltd on Wednesday launched a bid to explore for shale...
China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holding (BAIC) has confirmed it is to "reassess" the options to buy the General Motors (GM)'s Swedish unit Saab after its partner Koenigsegg backed out of the bid Wednesday, hinting at the looming "death knell," Swedish media said. "It has always been an import...