Only a week to go before decision time and it looks increasingly as though Xstrata boss Mick Davis has already made up his mind and opted to walk away from making a formal bid for mining rival Anglo American.
Reuters correspondent Raji Menon quotes an unnamed top-10 shareholder in Xstrata saying: “They have pretty much indicated to us that they will be walking away”.
This makes sense – nothing has changed since Xstrata got a “put up or shut up” notice from the UK’s Takeover Panel, giving it until October 20 to make a formal offer or walk away for six months.
If Xstrata has indeed made up its mind, it should waste no time in telling investors that it has no plans to make an offer. Why wait?
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