CVS boosts Caremark bid
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NEW YORK/CHICAGO  - 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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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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CVS delivered what it hoped would be a knockout punch in the fight to acquire Caremark, raising its offer to $26 billion.
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CVS Corp.  sweetened its bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on Tuesday by tripling a proposed special cash dividend for the prescription drug benefit manager's stockholders to $6 per share, after proxy advisory firms urged rejection of the previous offer.
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Shares in troubled medical software firm iSoft rise 9% after it emerges an Australian firm is in talks to buy it.
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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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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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The new offer of $25.7 billion came just hours before a judge made a surprise ruling that will force Caremark to postpone its shareholder vote on the CVS deal.
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Roche Holding AG  has overcome Ventana'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 in Alliance Boots, Europe's biggest pharmacy chain, surged almost 20 percent on Friday after it said it had received a &quot;preliminary and highly conditional&quot; takeover approach.
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NEW YORK/CHICAGO  - 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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Stocks advanced on Monday as deal news, including a takeover in the oil services industry worth nearly $18 billion, and strong pharmaceutical sector profits reassured investors after Friday's sell-off.
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First Health Group Corp. is the latest in a series of acquisitions that Coventry has made to try to boost its leverage with hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical companies when negotiating costs.
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THE REGION Cytyc Corp., a Marlborough maker of medical testing products, increased its offer to buy Australia's Vision Systems Ltd. to $517 million, topping a rival $346 million bid from Tucson-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc. Cytyc's new offer, up from its Sept. 17 offering of $377 million, came two days after Ventana said it had paid about $47.4 million to ...
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A hefty acquisition expands the health-care REIT's U.S. presence.
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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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The health insurer got a boost from its growing government segment, a lower-than-expected income tax rate and a gain on the sale of a venture capital investment.