Today's bid values Cadbury at 717p a share.
Nearly all of today's bids were above the floor price.
What are corporations to do with this cash pile?Today's bid by SABMiller for Australia's biggest beermaker, Foster's, reflects a trend a return to acquisitions.
Sources said there were detailed discussions with two other possible buyers which ran out of time ahead of today's bid deadline.
Joint chief executive Simon Denyer is one of the largest shareholders with a 9 per cent stake worth some £63 million at today's bid price.
Today's bid for Whole Foods pits Amazon against Walmart and vice versa.
The yield is the calculated real interest rate of the bond, if it is bought at today's bid price and kept until maturity.
Today's bid gives shareholders a choice of taking a cash offer of 372 pence $6.444) a share, receiving 0.23245 NTL shares for each Virgin share, or a medley of NTL shares and cash.
Last year's bidding netted $30,000 for 80 trees.
From the 1960's into the 1990's, bidding with a gambler's gleam in his eye, he rewrote scores of auction records for American furniture.
