Alcoa to Declare Force Majeure
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Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to declare force majeure to its customers because of a temporary shutdown of its alumina plant in Jamaica and damage to its seaport from Hurricane Ivan
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The French state will take a so-called &quot;golden share&quot; in the to-be-merged energy group of Suez and Gaz de France to prevent sales of GDF assets like gas infrastructure, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday.
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Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto launched a 38.1-billion-dollar offer for Canada&#39;s Alcan on Thursday, trumping US rival Alcoa in a mammoth bid to create the world&#39;s largest aluminium company.
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Business & money: Â· Alcoa bows out of contest in face of $38bn offer Â· Bid battle helps push Dow Jones to record close
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc , the world's biggest mining group, has revived plans for a $40 billion takeover of aluminium producer Alcoa Inc., the Times newspaper said in an unsourced report on Monday.
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Philippe Jaffre, executive vice president of engineering company Alstom and former chairman of oil group Elf Aquitaine, has died, his company said Sunday. He was 62.
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Alcoa Inc. (AA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest aluminum producer, on Thursday warned that third-quarter results would fall far short of
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Algeria's state oil and gas company and KBR Inc., a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary, signed a $2.88 billion deal Saturday for a liquefied natural gas plant.
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NOORDWIJK (The Netherlands) - Five European states yesterday agreed to a French proposal to set up a joint military-run gendarmerie force able to be deployed to crisis situations worldwide.
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Alcoa Inc. is part of a three-company consortium that will buy a major natural-gas pipeline in Australia for $1.3 billion. The consortium, which includes Diversified Utility &amp; Energy Trusts (DUET) and Alinta
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, and Alcoa Inc. said they plan to sell shares in their metal-processing and distribution venture.
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Alcoa Inc. , which has launched a hostile offer for Canadian rival Alcan Inc.  , said on Tuesday that it signed for a $30 billion credit facility with its lenders that it would use to pay for Alcan shares.
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Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.  on  Tuesday announced a restructuring of its product operations  that will include plant closings and could ultimately result in  a 10 percent reduction of its worldwide work force.
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Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.  on Tuesday announced a restructuring of its product operations that will include plant closings and could ultimately result in a 10 percent reduction of its worldwide work force.
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Shares of Alcoa Inc. fell sharply Friday after the metals giant warned that labour problems in Quebec and plant closings will weaken third-quarter profits.
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A shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will leave Egypt's Damietta plant for Spain next week, the first export in a sector crucial to the country's economic future, an oil official said.
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Luxembourg - France had persuaded fellow euro zone countries that joint action was needed to temper the economic impact of high oil prices, French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday, but it has taken flak from partners for acting unilaterally