Hai'er wants to Hoover up Maytag
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A special committee of board members at Maytag, the US white goods maker, on Monday accepted an indication of interest from a consortium of potential bidders which included Haier, the Chinese appliance maker, and US private equity groups Bain Capital and Blackstone.

The move could spark a bidding war with Ripplewood, the US private equity group run by Tim Collins that last month agreed to purchase Maytag, the Iowa-based manufacturer of the iconic Hoover vacuum, for $2.1bn in cash and debt, or $14 per share.

CNOOC poised to make Unocal offer
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China National Offshore Oil Corporation is this week poised to trump Chevron's $16.7bn bid for fellow US oil group Unocal.

UBS in talks to buy Bank of China stake
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UBS is in talks to buy a multi-million dollar stake in Bank of China, the country's third-largest lender, in a move that could increase the Swiss group's chances of winning a coveted advisory mandate for BoC's US$3bn-US$4bn overseas listing.

UBS and other foreign rivals will begin "pitching" to win a role on one of Asia's highest-profile deals of the past few years on Tuesday.

News of the Swiss bank's talks with BoC come weeks after Citigroup was stripped of its underwriting mandate on the US$5bn listing of China Construction Bank amid accusations it had reneged on a pledge to become an investor.

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