Smiths Group to Buy Medex for $625 Million in Cash
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Smiths Group Plc, which makes insulin pumps and anthrax-detection systems for the US Postal Service, agreed to buy Medex Inc. for $625 million in cash to expand its medical-equipment division.
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THE REGION Cambridge Drug maker Biogen Idec Inc. said it would start buying $3 billion worth of its own shares, potentially cutting the number of outstanding shares by one-sixth. Chief executive James Mullen said strong cash flows from sales of Avonex, for multiple sclerosis, and Rituxan, for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, allowed the company to return money to shareholders in a tender ...
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Rural hospital operator LifePoint  Hospitals Inc. LPNT.O agreed to buy rival Province Healthcare  Co. PRV.N for $1.03 billion in cash and stock to broaden its  geographic reach, the companies said on Monday.
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Swiss biotech company Addex Pharmaceuticals SA  could receive more than $700 million from Merck & Co Inc  for a licensing deal on its ADX63365 drug for schizophrenia.
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LifePoint Hospitals Inc.  said  on Monday it agreed to acquire Province Healthcare Co.   for about $1.125 billion in cash and stock.
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Pharmaceutical services company   AmerisourceBergen Corp. ABC.N said on Monday it has agreed to   buy Health Advocates Inc. for about $83 million in cash in a   move that will expand its workers' compensation business.
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INDIANAPOLIS - New Jersey-based health care products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson is buying Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for about $25.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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AEROSPACE and defence group Smiths is dipping into its Â£1.4bn acquisition war chest to buy medical equipment firm Medex for Â£476m.
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Pharmacy-benefits manager Medco  Health Solutions Inc.  said on Tuesday it agreed to buy  PolyMedica Corp.  for $1.2 billion, in a move to expand  its diabetes care services.
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Swiss-based banking giant UBS AG has agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s capital markets unit for &#36;265 million in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.
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LifePoint Hospitals has agreed to acquire rival Province Healthcare for $1.125 billion in cash and stock to broaden its geographic reach.
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Media & professional: Music group Sanctuary sells stake in Rough Trade Records, the label that first signed the Smiths.
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Pharmacy-benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc  said on Tuesday it agreed to buy PolyMedica Corp  for $1.2 billion, in a move to expand its diabetes care services.
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Pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc.  said on Tuesday it agreed to buy PolyMedica Corp.  for $1.5 billion in cash, in a move to expand its diabetes care services.
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Dutch chemical distributor Univar NV   said on Monday it is buying U.S. chemicals  distributor Chemcentral Corp. for $600 million in cash,  including assumed debt, to expand its U.S. operations.