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...Q4 Friday France: monthly industrial production figures US: February employment update Results: AbbVie Q4, Aon Q4, Bank of India Q3, Bristol Myers Squibb Q4, Charter Communications Q4, Chevron Q4, Cigna...
...One consequence, after successive rounds of consolidation, is a mooted $140bn insurance tie-up between Cigna and Humana....
...A Frankfurt court ruled on Tuesday that the bank didn’t have sufficient grounds to fire Pauls....
...In Washington it can call on retired general Ray Odierno and former members of Congress such as George Mitchell and Paul Ryan....
...Paul Meyer, chief executive of The Commons Project, said people vaccinated so far were often handed just a piece of paper, reminiscent of the “old yellow cards”....
...We can’t help but wonder how another activist with the name Singer — Paul Singer that is — would’ve acted had it been his firm Elliott Management on the shareholder registry....
...Two directors from HSBC, James Thomlinson and Paul Bundred, will also join Noblet in making the move, these people said. HSBC declined to comment, as did Noblet. Full story here....
...Deals this year include US health insurer Cigna’s $67bn takeover of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, German utility Eon’s acquisition of renewable energy group Innogy for €43bn, and Comcast’s £22.1bn...
...“Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire are clearly frustrated by the general inability of employers to do something about healthcare costs,” says Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institution, an independent...
...Here is what Scott Barshay, partner at law firm Paul Weiss had to say on the matter: “The M&A market has continued to be extremely robust in the first half of 2018 and current indications point to that...
...Recently he advised Cigna, the healthcare insurer that Anthem is trying to acquire for $48bn....
...That includes the likes of 3G Capital and the consumer industry companies they control as well as healthcare insurer Cigna....
...Mr Head worked on deals across sectors at Morgan Stanley, including the $48bn acquisition of Cigna by its larger US health insurance rival Anthem....
...Paul’s post has more....
...Aetna, WellPoint and Cigna, three of the US’s largest health operators, were among the biggest decliners on the main US market....
...WellPoint was up 3 per cent to $63.82, Aetna rose 4.7 per cent to $33.24 and Cigna Corp moved 2.9 per cent higher to $35.84....
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