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Pfizer boosts cancer drug roster with $14 billion Medivation deal

Medivation shares were up 20 percent at $80.43 in afternoon trading, just shy of the offer price of $81.50 per share. Shares of Pfizer, the largest U.S. drugmaker, were down 0.5 percent at $34.82. The offer is a 55-percent premium to Sanofi SA's initial offer to buy Medivation for $52.50 in April that pushed the San Francisco-based company to put itself up for sale.

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U.S. clearance of ChemChina’s Syngenta deal removes key hurdle

Several U.S. lawmakers and groups representing farmers had expressed fears over a Chinese state-owned company being in a position to influence the U.S. food supply. Syngenta shares jumped as much as 12.5 percent on the news and ended trading on Monday up 10.6 percent at 421.20 Swiss francs ($437.9). ChemChina's $465 per share cash offer values the company at around 448 Swiss francs per share at current exchange rates, plus a special five-franc dividend

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Federal Reserve under growing pressure to reform system, goals

The U.S. Federal Reserve has two guiding goals when designing monetary policy: maximum employment and stable inflation. At this year's flagship economic policy conference, from Aug. 25 to 27, U.S policymakers will confer not only with their counterparts from around the world but also host…

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Exclusive: Blackstone challenges Honeywell with JDA financing plan – sources

Blackstone Group LP has offered a financing plan to help debt-laden U.S. supply chain management company JDA Software Group Inc, giving it an alternative option to selling itself to Honeywell International Inc , people familiar with the matter said. The move illustrates how Blackstone, the world's largest private equity…

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U.S. inflation tame as economy gains momentum

U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in July on falling gasoline costs, but solid gains in industrial output and home building suggested a pickup in economic activity that could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year. Tuesday's mixed reports came as influential New York Fed President William Dudley said the U.S. central bank could hike rates next month, citing a tightening labor market that he said was starting to spur faster wage growth. “The strong housing starts and industrial output performance will …

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U.S. challenge to Anthem-Cigna deal gets new judge

The judge overseeing the U.S. government's bid to stop health insurer Anthem Inc from buying Cigna Corp , who had been seen as favorable for the deal, has relinquished the case. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was named to hear the case after Judge John Bates asked that it be reassigned. Jackson was nominated to the bench in 2011 by President Barack Obama, a Democrat.

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Financial stability should not become Fed’s third mandate: Mester

Maintaining stability in financial markets should not be an explicit goal for the Federal Reserve, which should use interest rates to head off a crisis only if more precise and better-suited tools fail, a top Fed official said on Tuesday. “If our macroprudential tools proved…

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GE’s finance unit sheds its ‘too big to fail’ designation

The move by the Financial Stability Oversight Council was the first time a non-banking firm has been freed from the designation, a product of the financial crash that can trigger stricter oversight and requirements to hold more capital. It was a big victory for GE …

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Deutsche, Santander fail U.S. stress test; Morgan Stanley gets second chance

By David Henry and Patrick Rucker NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. bank subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG and Banco Santander SA yet again failed the Federal Reserve's stress test on Wednesday due to “broad and substantial

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EU tells UK single market access requires full free movement

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders met for the first time without Britain on Wednesday less than a week after it voted to leave, delivering a tough message that London can access the bloc's lucrative single market only if it agrees to allow free movement for EU workers. Last week's shock referendum vote to leave the EU has caused global financial market turmoil, sent the pound sterling tumbling and wiped billions off the value of British shares. Britain's giant financial services sector, roughly 8 percent of economy, …

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