{"id":51702,"date":"2006-06-02T08:23:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/02\/how-much-is-true-of-alcoa-rumours\/"},"modified":"2006-06-02T08:23:55","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:23:55","slug":"how-much-is-true-of-alcoa-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/02\/how-much-is-true-of-alcoa-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Is True Of Alcoa Rumours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck<\/p>\n<p>Our sources tell us there are some rumours going around in the market about BHP Billiton (BHP) and Rio Tinto (RIO) studying a possible bid for North American miner Alcoa.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports in the Canadian press, investment bankers have already approached management at both diversified resources giants to consider launching a public offer for Alcan, but the rumour is this is just a smart ploy to draw the attention from the real target, which is Alcoa.<\/p>\n<p>Alcoa has previously been touted as a possible &quot;sitting duck&quot;. The usual suspects named are BHP and RIO, and Zug-based Xstrata. Brazil&#8217;s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce could be a potential suitor as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHP and RIO are named as potential suitors for Alcan, but rumour has it the real target is Alcoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}