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BHP massively hostile to Canadian fertiliser firm

BHP Billiton launches a hostile $40bn mega-bid for Potash - and there's no love lost between them...

How he made his pile: Jim Ratcliffe, Ineos founder

How did the UK's 'most private billionaire' make his money?

BHP takes on China with Rio mega-bid

BHP Billiton has increased its Rio Tinto bid to a massive $147bn - but China may have other ideas...

FTSE rebound gives brief respite

A semblance of normality returned to the FTSE 100 this morning, after a day of panicked selling.

Mining for gold

The mining sector may not be the most glamorous in the world, by most people’s standards, but investment bankers presumably have a very different view. After a string of big deals in the sector, market leader BHP Billiton said on Thursday that it wants to buy rival Rio Tinto. This would be the second...

The world’s biggest company

Hands up who’s heard of PetroChina? Well if you haven’t come across the name before, you should hear it a lot more now. The Chinese state-owned oil giant was valued at more than $1 trillion after its first day of trading on the Shanghai stock exchange, making it the world’s largest company by market...

Imperial sales go up in smoke

If you think business has been tough for you in the last few months, spare a thought for those in the cigarette business. The combined effect of the English smoking ban plus the miserable summer weather put a big dent in Imperial Tobacco’s UK sales, the cigarette maker admitted today.

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