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Viewsroom: Hostile gold diggers

Viewsroom

Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The three-way takeover fight involving Newmont, Barrick Gold and Goldcorp is full of aggression and big egos. Breakingviews columnists unpick the gold-mining M&A frenzy and debate whether cooler heads can prevail. Plus: China telecom giant Huawei has a public-relations challenge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3

Welcome to the viewss Room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views.

0:43.3

I'm Jennifer Sabah.

0:44.3

This week's topic, Gold Wars.

0:46.3

And later in the program, we'll pass it on to our colleagues in Hong Kong

0:50.3

who will discuss Wallway's ongoing public relations challenge.

0:53.3

But first, there's a battle brewing

0:55.6

among gold miners in the United States and Canada. This story has everything, hostile takeover

1:00.6

attempts, puny premiums, big executive egos. It begins with three companies, Barrett Gold,

1:06.7

Newmont Mining, and perhaps my favorite name ever, Gold Corp. So here to walk us through the Nuggets, visiting our New York studio from Singapore is our

1:15.0

colleague Clara Fierre Marquez.

1:17.1

Hi, Clara.

1:17.9

Hi.

1:18.5

And joining us on the horn from London is our colleague, George Hey.

1:22.6

Hello, George.

1:23.8

Good afternoon.

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