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...Other earnings: Athletic apparel maker Under Armour, Brookfield Asset Management, Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, pharmacy chain CVS Health and media company Fox Corp will report earnings before the opening...
...That deal was followed by CVS Health’s acquisition of Signify Health for about $8bn. Other private equity groups have also become big investors in healthcare companies....
...At the turn of the month, the head of CVS Health’s anti-theft team told a Senate Committee it currently experiences losses of $200m at its chain of pharmacies, with an average take of $2,000....
...The Arkansas-based company said it will continue discussions with CVS Caremark and attempt to find a solution....
...“The transaction is an important step forward in accelerating the company’s . . . growth in Latin America,” Judith McKenna, president and chief executive of Arkansas-based Walmart International said in a...
...CVS Health climbed after it increased the lower end of its profit guidance for 2016....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, already operates more than 4,000 pharmacies at its superstores and warehouse clubs across the US....
...All the buildings were previously drug stores that were acquired and then sold off by CVS, the pharmacy group, as part of the break-up of the old Albertson’s supermarket group in 2006....
...Express Scripts tabled a $26bn offer to buy Caremark in a move by the pharmacy benefits manager that could stymie a $21bn all-stock bid made by CVS , which Caremark has already accepted....
...Albertsons Sav-on and Osco pharmacy chains could be attractive to rivals Walgreens and CVS, who are both expanding their networks....
...As the Stowe Reporter points out, the village came to be owned by AIG simply because its founder, CV Starr, loved to ski....
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