The fights over Equinox Minerals and NYSE Euronext cross financial and political faultlines. The first battle is almost over; China’s Minmetals, which made a cash bid for the Australian-Canadian copper miner, has ceded to a higher cash offer from Barrick Gold. The second struggle – rival, mostly share, offers from Deutsche Börse and a consortium of Nasdaq OMX and ICE – continues.
圍繞Equinox Minerals和紐約證交所-泛歐交易所(NYSE Euronext)展開的兩場爭奪,在金融和政治層面上存在著差異。第一場爭奪已接近尾聲:面對巴里克黃金(Barrick Gold)向Equinox開出的更高現金出價,曾對這家澳洲-加拿大銅礦商發起現金收購的中國五礦資源(Minmetals)已決定退出競爭。第二場爭奪則仍在繼續;競購方分別是德意志交易所(Deutsche Börse),和由那斯達克OMX集團(Nasdaq OMX)及洲際交易所(ICE)組成的財團,雙方對紐約證交所-泛歐交易所的收購都主要採用換股方式。