Business
Mining giant BHP Billiton to take bid to Potash shareholders
Aug. 18, 2010
IMC Global Inc. said Monday it agreed to acquire Vigoro Corp. for nearly $1.2 billion in stock, in a merger that would create one of the world’s biggest fertilizer suppliers.
Nov. 14, 1995
French oil group Elf-Aquitaine Inc. said Monday that it will sell its phosphates unit Texasgulf Inc., based in Raleigh, N.C., for $810 million to Canada’s Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s largest potash producer.
March 7, 1995
World & Nation
Blaze is put out today; about 70 workers at the Canadian operation are safe in refuge rooms.
Jan. 30, 2006
Stocks surged Monday on Wall Street after a Federal Reserve official said the central bank shouldn’t raise interest rates too soon, which came as a big relief to investors.
Sept. 12, 2016
American President Cos. has announced the appointment of Stephen J.
Nov. 24, 1987
Saskatchewan farmers, expecting to see their earnings drop, knocked less often on Farm Credit Corp.’
June 18, 1985
Minerals brought life to this scorched corner of the Mojave Desert more than a century ago, and a string of prospectors have clutched the fate of tiny Trona in their fists since.
Dec. 13, 1990
Like many Texas businessmen in 1985, Tom Lundberg was being squeezed by collapsing real estate prices.
Oct. 30, 1989
Waste: Town, opening nation’s first nuclear dump, expects a payoff.
June 8, 1998