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21 February 2011
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Take Potash Corp. Canada’s blocking of BHP’s $39 bln bid in November made the company takeoverproof. Normally that would cost shareholders. Yet it now trades 42 pct above BHP’s bid price. The offer was low but the politicians also helped save investors from themselves.
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