It said the offer values Seal at about $29 million.

As a result, the value of Wells's offer increased to $143.12 a share, or $10.90 billion.

So the value of Prudential's offer is now about $22 billion.

The total value of his offer is $:77.4 million, or about $124 million.

The offer values Jensen at more than $53 million.

The offer values Prudential at £7.08 ($12.43) a share, a price that some analysts said was too low.

The offer values Rexel at 15 times its 2003 operating profit.

But at the current market prices, the value of Illinois Central's offer had risen to about $9.50 a share.

At that time, the blended value of its offer was about $82.72 a share, considerably more than the current offer.

The offer values Wanadoo at more than $18 billion.