Canada's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which controls a $96.34bn portfolio, is plotting a bid to spoil BHP Billiton's (BHP) (BLT.L: Quote) $40 billion hostile takeover offer for Potash Corp (POT), the worlds top fertilizer maker. London-based BHP launched a 40 billion US dollars (£25 billion) bid for Canada's PotashCorp in...

The Gulf city-state, Dubai's government hired HSBC (HSBA), Deutsche Bank (DBKGn) and Standard Chartered (STAN) to issue dollar bond. The issue would be the first government bond sale since Dubai World, a flagship company of the emirate, left financial markets reeling in November last year by asking for a delay...

Alstom (ALO), French power and transport engineering maker, signed a contract worth 100 million euros to build 90 megawatt wind farms in the state of Bahia, in Brazil with renewable energy company Engevix. Alstom will build three farms for Brazilian renewable energy company Desenvix, a subsidiary of Brazilian engineering group...