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...Some advisers also suggested AbbVie ended up valuing the whole of Pharmacyclics at roughly $40bn — given that it still has to share a significant chunk of Imbruvica profits with J&J, it is a huge sum for...
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...Together, the pair would leapfrog J&J in orthopaedics and become market leader in sports medicine. J&J, meanwhile, has signalled its appetite for deals to absorb some of its $34bn cash pile....
...Emma Dunkley ● All eyes will be on whether the UK grocery market is showing any signs of improvement when J Sainsbury updates on trading....
...The market will be keen to see whether Tesco shares the optimism of rival J Sainsbury, which indicated that the tide could be turning for Britain’s big supermarkets, with better than expected sales and an...
...S&N has also been helped in recent days by talk of potential interest from Johnson & Johnson, though analysts saw cancer drugmaker Pharmacyclics as a higher-priority target for J&J....
...Gents, David Hart and N Hoolywood all showed fine collections, while Laurence Chandler, one of the designers behind Rochambeau, constructed chunky cable-knit sweaters, a translucent puffer jacket and a solid...
...Bull session J’accuse! So began the denunciation of injustice written by French author Emile Zola, and so does ours....
...Earnings Dell Q1 n/a (n/a) Trading and sales update McDonald’s Shareholder meetings Best Buy Formosa Petrochemical Corp Earnings Betfair FY 46.14p (30.80p) Trading and sales update J Sainsbury...
...Earnings ICAP FY 16.61p (15.20p) J Sainsbury FY 16p (15p) London Stock Exchange FY 50.75p (51p) SSE FY n/a (35.3p) Trading and sales updates Barratt Developments ●Optimism about the Christmas shopping...
...’ Q1 CHF0.28 (CHF0.03) ING Groep Q1 €0.68 (€0.20) Mitsubishi Corp (XSQ) FY Y213.20 (Y275.83) News Corp Q3 n/a (n/a) J Sainsbury FY 29.98p (27.80p) Telefónica Q1 €0.20 (€0.29) Telecom Italia Q1 €0.03...
...(Financial Times) Sweden’s Hakon Invest is acquiring the 60 per cent of shares it doesn’t own in Nordic food retailer ICA AB for 20 billion Swedish kronor ($3.1 billion) from Royal Ahold N.V....
...Union Bank of California has agreed to buy Pacific Capital Bancorp, a smaller California-based bank part-owned by billionaire Gerald J Ford, in the biggest industry deal so far this year....
...N Brown lost 5 per cent to 229¾p after the catalogue retailer’s Christmas trading update showed margins weakening....
...Ironically, just as ultra-American labels like Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch, J....
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...Turner, Kevin J. Kelly, James D. Carnwath, Mary G. Condon, Paulette L. Kennedy, Vern Krishna, Christopher Portner and Edward P....
...One investor said that a move to combine S&N and Biomet would in effect serve as a “put-up or shut-up” for J&J....
...Once combined with J&J’s DePuy business it would have a 35 per cent global market share in hips and knees. S&N is also big in arthroscopy — around a third of the global market according to Merrill....
...That’s not to say it wasn’t considered in the wake of J&J’s approach to S&N in December as a possible defence....
...“J&J could buy almost anything,” said Merrill Lynch. However, the broker doubted whether S&N was a likely target....
...The $360m purchase marks News Corp’s first significant foray into the educational market....
...J&J bid at a penny-pinching 750p a share, a forward earnings multiple of 15 times, according to Investec. J&J could afford to offer more....
...There was also talk that J&J could abandon its interest in S&N and bid instead for Synthes, the Swiss medical device maker....
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