04.01.2016
- Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund of billionaire US activist investor Bill Ackman, has trimmed its stake in Canada-headquartered Valeant Pharmaceuticals from...
23.12.2015
- Argentina’s state-owned oil and gas group YPF and Dow Chemical’s Argentinian subsidiary PBB Solisur plan to invest $500 million to triple production at their existing shale gas...
23.12.2015
- Bayer is likely to seek a major life sciences M&A deal in the next few years, banking sources have told the news agency Reuters. The German group’s absence from a recent wave of...
23.12.2015
- The “renaissance” of the US chemical industry is just beginning, and the fundamentals for growth in 2016 are strong, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) says in its report, Year...
22.12.2015
- Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharma, which made headlines by raising the price of the 62-year-old drug, Daraprim (pyrimethamine) from $13.50 to $700 a tablet shortly after...
21.12.2015
- In the final part of the UK government’s14th licensing round, Ineos has been awarded 21 new shale gas licenses. With the addition of 700,000 acres to its existing 300,000, the...
21.12.2015
- As plans for the merger of Dow and DuPont gather momentum, customers and employees as well as local businesses in communities where some of their operations are based are concerned...
18.12.2015
- Contrasting with CEFIC’s forecast for Europe as a whole, the German chemical industry has a slightly more upbeat note on the business outlook for 2016. Thanks to the economic...
