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...Bluebell Capital Partners, a small UK activist investor with a history of mobilising coalitions, revealed earlier this week that it had taken a 0.01 per cent stake and asked Fink to resign....
...Dolby Laboratories shares hit a six-and-a-half year high on Wednesday after Apple featured “Dolby Vision” imaging technology in some of its newly launched products....
...And so you buy an iPhone, and you recruit a metallurgist to help you determine the chemical composition of a single phone by smashing one up and pulling it apart in a laboratory....
...The shares gained 10 per cent to $13.01. All three main US equity indices were stronger by the close of markets....
...(Financial Times) “Actavis Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire rival drug maker Forest Laboratories Inc., in a deal that could value Forest at up to $25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter...
...* India moves on current account gap at expense of growth * GSK is test case in China’s rules laboratory * Baidu: 91 Wireless bid marks move to mobile * McDonald’s to bring Big Mac to Vietnam * Rupiah...
...Roper Industries moved up after the diversified manufacturer of technical instruments revealed a $1.4bn cash buyout of Sunquest Information Systems, a diagnostics and laboratory software services outfit...
...Halliburton , the oilfield services company, was up 4 per cent to $49.01. The S&P energy index climbed 1.1 per cent....
...L’Oreal plans to invest $111m in India L’Oreal SA plans to invest $111m to open more factories, laboratories and an innovation centre in India, which the French cosmetics giant wants to be one of its top...
...Dionex’s shares were up 20.21 per cent at $118.01....
...Facet Biotech jumped 66.6 per cent to $27.01 after Abbott Laboratories, which makes the arthritis drug Humira, agreed to buy the biotech company for $27 per share, valuing the company at about $450m....
...The dollar also fell against the yen, but the recovered to trade up 0.1 per cent to Y90.01....
...Rival chipmaker National Semiconductor also fell, dropping 2 per cent to $12.01, while Microsoft gave up 2.7 per cent to $18.83....
...KLA Tencor lost 8 per cent to $48.01 and Novellus fell 6.5 per cent to $30.61. Both suffered broker downgrades. Other high-profile technology companies also dragged the market lower....
...Generic drug maker Mylan Laboratories added 15.2 per cent to $22.00 as quarterly earnings rose 76 per cent. Pfizer gained 9.6 per cent to $26.11....
...There was some disappointing news from the drugmaker Abbott Laboratories, which dropped 4.2 per cent $47.65 after the company said third-quarter profit would be below expectations....
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