CVS boosts Caremark bid with sweeter dividend plan
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CVS Corp.  sweetened its bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on Tuesday by tripling a proposed special cash dividend for the pharmacy benefit manager's stockholders to $6 per share, after proxy advisory firms urged rejection of the previous offer.
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Pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. launched a $26 billion bid Monday for its larger competitor Caremark Rx Inc., potentially scuttling a competing offer from drug chain CVS/pharmacy.
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Stocks gained on Monday, buoyed by  Citigroup Inc. C.N, which said it plans to sell its insurance  unit to MetLife Inc. MET.N, and relief that elections in Iraq  went off with less bloodshed than expected.
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Drugstores CVS/Caremark Corp.  and Rite Aid Corp.  on Thursday posted higher June sales at stores open at least a year, but both chains' pharmacy sales growth was tempered by the introduction of cheaper generic drugs.
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NASHVILLE -- CVS Corp. boosted its offer for Caremark Rx Inc. for a third time yesterday, just a day after rival bidder Express Scripts Inc. raised its offer.
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CVS Corp.  is likely to  raise its $23.4 billion offer for Caremark Rx Inc. CMX.N>, but  rival suitor Express Scripts Inc.  may still have more  money to throw into the bidding war, sources familiar with the  situation said on Thursday.
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CVS Corp.  on Thursday again sweetened its $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  with an increased dividend, calling the new proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits manager.
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Drugstore chain CVS Corp. CVS.N on  Tuesday said October sales at stores open at least a year rose  5.4 percent on higher demand for prescriptions and other  merchandise at its CVS stores.
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McDonald&#39;s (MCD) Tuesday raised its annual dividend by 38%, a move the world&#39;s largest restaurant chain said is another sign of its revitalization.
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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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Express Scripts Inc.  sweetened its bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on Wednesday after suffering two setbacks in its battle to wrest the rival pharmacy-benefit manager away from a $22.8 billion deal with CVS Corp.
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The share price of British insurer Friends Provident leapt higher on Monday after American private equity company J.C. Flowers said it was considering a takeover bid.
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TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU) said Monday it will increase its quarterly dividend 350 percent over last quarter to 56.25 cents per share. The increased dividend -- up from 12.
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An RBS-led group sweetens its bid for Dutch lender ABN Amro, boosting the amount of cash it has offered.
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A Delaware Chancery Court judge  ruled on Friday that Caremark Rx Inc.  must delay a  shareholder vote on its planned acquisition by CVS Corp.   until at least 20 days after it provides more details  on the transaction.
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WASHINGTON -- CVS Caremark Corp., the second-biggest US drugstore chain, and two former executives settled claims they used an improper trade of stuffed animals to overstate profit, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
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A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled on Friday Caremark Rx Inc.  must delay a shareholder vote on its planned acquisition by CVS Corp.  until at least 20 days after it provides more details on the transaction.