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...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...Robert B Ford, president of Abbott, said the device would help clinicians test “outside of the traditional walls of a hospital in outbreak hotspots”....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...S&P has downgraded WeWork’s credit rating from B to B- with a negative outlook. 2. Talking of pulled IPOs . . ....
...The organic growth decline is similar to 2009 but we assume a more muted margin impact of 200 b.p’s vs 300 b.p.s’ – this reflects WPP has anticipated the slowdown & the likely availability of some Government...
...Laboratories....
...Even so, the 36.5-per-cent transfer was a better outcome than secured lenders feared -- senior loans actually rallied at first, according to LCD, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Inc. ($59bn, 19 per cent)Amgen Inc. ($33bn, 13 per cent)Medtronic plc ($29bn, 18 per cent)Abbott Laboratories ($22bn, 19 per cent)General Electric ($104bn, 15 per cent)Eaton Corp. ($15bn, 8 per cent)Cisco...
...Elsewhere, St Jude Medical, a maker of devices for the heart-care industry, surged by 25.5 per cent to $77.78 after Abbott Laboratories said it agreed to buy the group for $25bn....
...Abbott Laboratories, the US healthcare heavyweight, was the latest to strike a deal after it announced on Monday it had agreed to acquire Alere, a diagnostic group, for $5.8bn....
...Shares in Alere , a provider of diagnostic tests, surged almost 45.5 per cent to $54.11 after industry heavyweight Abbott Laboratories agreed to acquire it for $56 a share....
...Abbott Laboratories gained 1.9 per cent to $40.63 after Barclays lifted the stock from “equal weight” to “overweight” but lowered the price target from $55 to $52....
...The benchmark S&P 500 advanced 0.48 per cent to 1,977.10 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.66 per cent to 17,055.42....
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...The Chicago-based company was spun off from Abbott Laboratories last year....
...In the past month, single B loans were issued with average yields of 6.6 per cent whereas new single B bonds were 6.9 per cent, according to Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ LCD....
...(Bloomberg, Quartz) “The pace of US bond deals has accelerated sharply in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, with a sale by an arm of Abbott Laboratories, the drug and medical device maker, becoming the single...
...Abbott Laboratories was up 1.5 per cent to $53.25 after saying it would split into two entities, one focused on research and the other selling drugs and medical devices....
...Laboratories, the medical device manufacturers....
...Abbott Laboratoriesfell 1.3 per cent to $51.12, Johnson & Johnson was 0.9 per cent lower at $64.78 and Eli Lilly lost 1.8 per cent to $35.38....
...Universal Health Services , an operator of more than 100 medical facilities in the US, was down 1.5 per cent to $39.48 after the company had its corporate credit rating cut from triple B to double B at Standard...
...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....
...Argos stores are already at saturation point in the UK and Homebase is a weak second to B&Q in the DIY market, it said....
...Royal Dutch Shell stayed inside positive territory, with its B shares rising 0.5 per cent to £19.22....
...The Edam Acquisition consortium, comprising Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Mediacinco Cartera SL, Cyrte Fund II B.V. and VI, L.P., acquired control of 99.7% of Endemol Investment Holding BV from Telefonica...
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