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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... points lower at 6,181 on a volume of 11,993 contracts. National carrier Qantas Airways was off one cent at $5.38 after a consortium bidding $11.1 billion for the airline yesterday restructured its offer to boost its chance of success and told the airline's ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... Bank will release its monthly business survey for March. In corporate news, Qantas will be in the spotlight after the consortium seeking to take over the airline lowered the acceptance level needed for approval of its $11 billion bid. On Thursday, when ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
... after Treasurer Peter Costello said yesterday that an inquiry into the takeover of Qantas by a Macquarie Bank-backed consortium would not delay a Foreign Investment Reveiw Board decision on the issue and the airline and the Australian Competition and ...

Hatfield leaves Pengana

... research business. Last September Hatfield reportedly sold his 15,000 shares in Pengana Managers weeks after a Packer-led consortium took over the hedge funds business, to be re-branded Magellan Financial Group. "I think what Chris Mackay and Hamish ...

NAB wary of private equity but keen to play

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... private equity was its role as joint lead arranger of a debt package of more than $1 billion for the private equity consortium that bought the Myer department store business from Coles. "We are active in private equity, we intend to remain so and we ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... go up at 1100 AEDT, when its shares begin trading. Qantas this morning rejected an $11 billion takeover bid from a consortium including Australia's Macquarie Bank Ltd. "If they've rejected the offer, it's not necessarily over," Mr Klusman said. "At this ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... share price index contract was down three points at 5,423. Qantas Airways Ltd has received a takeover approach from a consortium led by Macquarie Bank and US private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, sending shares in Australia's biggest airline soaring ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
... the moment." Qantas' announcement it had an approach from Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group on behalf of a consortium they represent helped drive a jump in its shares and by 1202 AEDT they had climbed 63 cents to $4.98. Telecommunications giant ...

Flight Centre books private equity ticket

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
... of private equity deals that are happening increasingly fast and comes a week after PBL sold down into a $6 billion consortium. Graham Turner, chief executive of Flight Centre, explained, "Given the uncertain and challenging outlook for the travel industry ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... biggest retailer lost 99 cents or 6.8 per cent after knocking back a revised takeover bid of $15.25 per share by the consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Robert. The Coles board said the new bid still undervalued the group. Austock senior client adviser ...