Centene buys Medicaid plan, stock rises 10 pct
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Centene Corp. (CNC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , which sells Medicaid government health insurance plans, said it bought new plans totaling 136,000 new members, pushing its shares
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German drugmaker Merck MRCG.DE on   Thursday agreed to buy a 64.5 percent stake in rival Serono   SEO.VX in a surprise deal valued over 10 billion Swiss francs   ($8.3 billion), creating a new force in European   pharmaceuticals.
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Chip maker's fourth-quarter revenue up 10 percent, led by robust demand for server and notebook processors.
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CVS Corp.  sweetened its  $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on  Thursday with an increased dividend, calling its newest  proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits  manager.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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MONTREALâBombardier Inc. common stock jumped 10 per cent yesterday as the market reacted to news the transportation giant has been selected to share in a major railway project in China.
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AmerisourceBergen Corp. (ABC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it has signed a 10-year agreement with ID Biomedical Corp.
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Shares of Medarex Inc. rose over 11 percent before the market opened Monday after the company said it and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
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The chip maker Texas Instruments said Friday that it had expanded its share buyback program by $5 billion, or about 10 percent of its market capitalization, sending shares up.
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The insurance giant MetLife Inc. is buying Travelers Life &amp; Annuity Co. for at least $11.5 billion from Citigroup Inc. , the nation's largest financial institution.
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UnitedHealth Group, the largest US health insurance company, has said that it will spend $300 million in cash to buy Definity Health, a smaller health technology company specializing in plans that allow consumers leeway in directing their medical spending
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Orthopedic device maker Biomet Inc.  said on Monday it will be acquired by a private equity consortium for about $10.9 billion, eight months after putting itself on the auction block.
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Shareholders of Meta Group (META:Nasdaq - news - research) got a late Christmas present Monday when Gartner (IT:NYSE - news - research) said it would buy the research shop for $10 a share, or $162 million.
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Roche Holding AG  has overcome Ventana Medical System Inc's  resistance to its takeover bid by raising the price, acquiring the diagnostics maker for $3.4 billion to boost its cancer testing business.
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Shares of Mylan Laboratories Inc., the largest US maker of generic drugs, surged Thursday after the company said investor Carl Icahn was given the green light by regulators to buy up to $500 million of the company&#39;s stock.
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U.S. antitrust authorities on  Wednesday approved AstraZeneca Plc&#39;s  plan to buy  biotechnology company MedImmune Inc.  for more than $15  billion.
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The private-equity firm invests more than 10% of its assets in the latest quarter.