08.08.2016
- The wave of mega mergers in the global pharmaceutical industry is driving prices for new “wonder drugs” financed with public funding, a study by the UK’s Cambridge University...
14.10.2015
- US drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the country’s largest healthcare company, in particular in the consumer segment, has launched a $10 billion debt-financed share buyback...
04.09.2015
- After emerging relatively unscathed from Monsanto’s bear hug, Swiss agrochemicals giant is tossing a bone to shareholders who may have preferred it to be more open to a merger with...
28.01.2015
- US chemical giant DuPont plans to buy back up to $4 billion of its shares using the dividend expected from the spinoff of its Performance Chemicals division, which will trade in...
23.05.2013
- Pfizer said on Wednesday it will spin off its majority stake in animal health business Zoetis to shareholders by allowing them to swap Pfizer stock for Zoetis shares at a 7%...
16.05.2013
- A changing of the guard at Switzerland's two biggest drugmakers is fuelling talk that Novartis may finally sell its multi-billion-dollar stake in cross-town rival Roche...
28.03.2013
- U.S. fertilizer producer Mosaic reported a 26% rise in third-quarter profit, driven by higher potash and phosphate volumes and said it wants to buy back shares later this year...
10.03.2013
- Drugmaker Elan is to bring forward a planned $1 billion share buyback to next week, the Irish company said in a statement, a move that could undermine a takeover offer by U.S...
