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Arrow backs improved takeover offer
Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina have won a board recommendation after lifting their joint bid for the Australian energy producer from A$4.45 to A$4.70 a share in cash
China begins trial of Rio Tinto employees
The trial in Shanghai of four Rio Tinto employees who were charged with receiving bribes and infringing commercial secrets is being closely watched by anxious investors
Tentative deal to replace iron ore price system
Global miners and Japanese steelmakers have reached a tentative deal to replace the 40-year-old iron ore pricing system based on annual contracts and lengthy negotiations with short-term contracts linked to the spot market
India wins funding for solar power drive
The International Finance Corporation is investing in India’s first commercially viable solar power project, giving a vote of confidence to the country’s ambitions to develop the technology
Petrobras to invest $220bn in new fields
The Brazilian national oil company will spend between $200bn and $220bn over the next five years as it ramps up capital expenditure to develop potentially enormous new oil fields discovered off Brazil’s coast since 2007, says its financial director
Shell in Mexican Gulf oil find
Royal Dutch Shell has announced a ‘significant new oil discovery’ in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico that could have the potential to be a hub
Gulfsands rejects £400m offer by IOC
Gulfsands Petroleum, the Syria-focused oil explorer, says the unsolicited takeover approach from Indian Oil Corporation is ‘wholly inadequate’
Rio and Chinalco to share Guinea project
Rio Tinto and Chinalco confirmed plans to form a partnership that will develop a rich iron ore deposit in Guinea in what is expected to be the first of a number of joint ventures
Gulfsands set to reject takeover approach
The Syria-focused oil explorer is poised to rebuff an unsolicited offer – understood to be from a large Indian oil company – that would value the company at more than £400m
African Barrick priced at low end of range
The London spin-off of Barrick Gold successfully raises about £575m and will start trading with a market capitalisation of £2.3bn, making it a potential FTSE 100 entrant
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