Comments on: Citigroup Rates Rio Tinto, BHP as Ripe For Private Equity Takeover

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:37:07 +0000

A private equity takeover of BHP might be a little difficult to organise seeing as it would be by far the biggest ever buy-out (market cap of USD 100bn+)...

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:56:38 +0000

Both companies are dual listed and I think will be hard to take - from my experience I think our friends the analysts models havent been that reliable in the past and their assumptions may be off - especially the impact of declining commodity prices....

By: henry clark

henry clark — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:19:09 +0000

The foreign investment review board stopped the Shell bid for Woodside.Is that a factor, for BHP or RIO?
Also can some one explain to me, how the share price of Woodside,was manipulated down from $14 to $9, during 2002- 2003? The move made a patsy of me, and I still havent worked it out.