France&#39;s AXA drops bid for Australian subsidiary
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SYDNEY, Oct 18  - Shares in Australian financial services group AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd tumbled Monday after its France-based parent AXA SA withdrew a AUD 3.1 billion (USD 2.2 billion) offer to take 100 percent control, dealers said.
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WMC, the Australian mining firm, turns down a $5.5bn bid from Swiss company Xstrata but says it is willing to hold talks on a deal.
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Italian airline Air One withdraws from the bidding for a stake in state-owned Alitalia, threatening its sale.
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Talks on buying the portion of the Australia-based subsidiary that it did not already own fell apart over price, says France-based AXA SA.
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Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways said it had rejected a multi-billion-dollar takeover bid from a private equity consortium.
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PARIS (Dow Jones)--French insurance company AXA SA (AXA) said Monday the collapse of plans to buy out minority shareholders in its Australian business, AXA Asia Pacific
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Dexia SA, Belgium&#39;s second-largest financial-services company, terminated talks with Italy&#39;s Sanpaolo IMI SpA on a possible partnership, saying ``the conditions are no longer right.
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THE dollar reversed yesterday&#39;s modest gains to open more than half a US cent weaker today, weighed down on news Axa Asia Pacific had knocked back a takeover proposal from its French parent.
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Akzo Nobel  said on Monday it was selling its drugs unit Organon BioSciences to Schering-Plough  for 11 billion euros ($14.5 billion), dropping plans to float it in a public share offer.
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Olivant Advisers dropped its bid for troubled British mortgage lender Northern Rock, saying its offer would not satisfy both the government and its own interests.
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A planned tie-up between Australia&#39;s Qantas and Air New Zealand has been thrown out by New Zealand&#39;s High Court. The decision ends a two-year effort by the airlines to fight off low-cost carriers by combining forces.
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Sport: Football: Club pulls the plug on potential takeover deal with Hong Kong businessman
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR)  said on Monday it had withdrawn from a consortium looking at bidding for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd. .
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Dubai Aerospace Enterprise quits its $1.8bn plan to buy a majority stake in Auckland International Airport.
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ATTEMPTS by mining house Gold Fields attempts to resist rival Harmony&#39;s hostile takeover bid were dealt a major blow yesterday, after a last-minute switch by Sanlam Asset Managers effectively torpedoed its plan to list its international assets in Canada.
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Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources Ltd (WMR.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) rejected aA$7.4 billion ($5.5 billion) takeover bid
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The German-US automaker DaimlerChrysler has shot down plans by French President Jacques Chirac to place a Frenchman as the sole head of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, the Financial Times said.