Reuters have gone early with the Anglo American counter bid story, suggesting Glencore is 'studying' the possiblity of submitting a rival approach for Anglo American.
The Reuters story follows some well timed comment piece by little old Betaville's chum Oliver "Shahsy" Shah of The Sunday Times, who suggested Glencore was the most lilely counter bidder
Below is a link to the Reuters piece:..
The race is on among financial commentators to call (or figure out, if you are a news hack) who will make a counter bid for Anglo American, the FTSE 100-listed mining company under siege from rival BHP Billiton.
Yesterday, Oliver "Shahsy" Shah of The Sunday Times went early with his bold prediction that Glencore will be the interloper to come up with a rival offer for Anglo American. Below is the link to Shahsy's piece:..
Bloomberg dug out the biggest takeover scoop of the weekend.
The financial media giant revealed that Danaher Corporation, the US-listed life sciences giant, has recently expressed an interest in buying Catalent, a healthcare contract manufacturer.
Bloomberg suggests Danaher indicated it could be willing to pay a significant premium for Catalent, so the latter's shares may be sharply up on Monday...