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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 ...

IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has announce that a consortium it is involved with is bidding to takeover AWG in the UK, the fourth-largest water supplier and sewage company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions ...

Hatfield opts out of Packer's new Pengana

Only weeks after a Packer led consortium announced it was taking over Malcolm Turnbull's struggling Pengana Hedge Funds, its former principal, Damien Hatfield, together with its chief executive officer, Russell Pillemer, have sold out of the business. ...

Pengana's hedge fund arm finds a new home

Malcolm Turnbull's brainchild and 'house of hedge funds' Pengana Hedge Funds has been turned over to a new consortium, including James Packer and former UBS investment bank chairman, Chris Mackay, who will also be launching a new long only global equities ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2006
... oil prices held near their lowest levels this year, while BAA gained on hopes it will strike a deal with a Ferrovial consortium. The FTSE 100 index closed 0.8 points easier at 5,791.5. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 5,764.37, up 0.97 points. PARIS ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2004
... Also, investors will be looking for any further developments in the battle for ALH after the Coles Myer-Macquarie Bank consortium upped their offer late Friday.