News Source: The Motley Fool
| about 1 month ago
Just when all eyes were focused on China, along came India to spice up the gold market. With this week's revelation that the International Monetary Fund sold 200 tonnes of gold to India's central bank during October (at prices averaging about $1,045...
News Source: The Motley Fool
| about 1 month ago
Technically, Schering lives on as a quirk; It was a reverse merger , after all. But after Schering bought Merck As "Merck," it answers the call...Using Vytorin-plus-Zetia to get close Actually may have backfired...Many weren't developed by Schering,...
News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 month ago
Merck & Co and Schering-Plough Corp said their $41.1 billion merger will be completed later on Tuesday, marking the close of the second huge deal in the pharmaceutical industry in recent weeks. Pfizer Inc, the world largest drugmaker, closed its...
News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 month ago
Merck was the world's top-selling drugmaker in the mid-1990s, but Pfizer took the lead in 1998 when it launched an overnight success, impotence pill Viagra. Repeated mergers among other drugmakers pushed Merck further back in line...Schering-Plough,...
News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 month ago
The new Merck & Co. becomes the world's second-biggest drugmaker overnight, and it's boasting a fat wallet to fund future deals. That's after the maker of vaccines and cholesterol and diabetes drugs bought Schering-Plough Corp. yesterday for $41.1...
News Source: The Journal Gazette
| about 1 month ago
Stanley is a leader in consumer and industrial hand tools and security, and Black & Decker in power tools. Factory orders rise 0.9% in September Orders to U.S. factories rebounded in September, helped by strength in autos, heavy machinery and...