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Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) said it plans to appeal a federal court's judgment ordering the chemical company to pay $1.2 billion for the alleged price fixing of urethane chemicals.The fine was ordered by a U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, on Wednesday. Dow was one of several companies named in the price fixing suit, though other defendants had earlier settled the accusations while denying the charges. BASF Corp. had agreed to pay $51 million, while Bayer AG (BAYRY, BAYN.XE) agreed to pay $55 million and Huntsman International LLC agreed to pay $33 million."We believe that the jury's findings required that judgment should have been entered in Dow's favor and that the class should have been decertified based upon the Supreme Court's recent decision in the Comcast case, which involved the same plaintiffs' expert," the company said in a statement.The company noted it has always denied the plaintiffs' allegations of price fixing and said the matter was investigated by the U.S. Departm...
Bayer AG (BAYRY, BAYN.XE) has agreed to buy Conceptus Inc. (CPTS) for about $1.1 billion (852 million euros) as the health-care firm aims to broaden its women's cont...
Bayer AG on Monday said it will buy Conceptus, Inc. , whose flagship product is a surgery-free permanent birth control method, for $1.1 billion. Bayer intends to ext...
Germany's Bayer AG has agreed to buy U.S. contraceptive devices maker Conceptus for $1.1 billion, aiming to underpin its position as the world's largest women's heal...
AstraZeneca PLC (AZN.LN) said Thursday profit and sales fell for a fifth-consecutive quarter as the drug giant continues to suffer patent expiries that leave some of...
Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) Thursday confirmed its outlook for the year as it reported a rise in first-quarter earnings, supported by growth at the HealthCare and CropScience...
Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) Thursday confirmed its outlook for the year as it reported a rise in first-quarter earnings, supported by growth at the HealthCare and CropScience...
The following is a summary of analysts' forecasts for Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) first-quarter results, based on a poll of 13 analysts conducted by Dow Jones Newswires (figu...
The UK's healthcare cost-effectiveness body known as National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, Friday recommended German pharmaceutical company Bay...
Syngenta AG's (SYNN.VX) chief executive Mike Mack said Thursday a proposed two-year ban by the European Commission on some insecticides that could be harmful to bees...
Germany's Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) said Tuesday its CropScience unit and Monsanto Co. (MON) have entered into a series of licensing agreements for next-generation and enab...
Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) first-quarter earnings fell 11% on litigation expenses, impacts related to its Synthes Inc. acquisition and other items, though the acquisi...
Portuguese stocks slumped in an otherwise upbeat Europe on Monday, after the country's high court struck down some of the austerity measures enacted as part of its 7...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) Thursday said it has bought privately held pharmaceutical firm Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH in Darmstadt.MAIN F...
A federal judge in Kansas City, Kansas, ordered Dow Chemical Co on Wednesday to pay $1.2 billion in a price-fixing case involving chemicals used to make foam product...
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG is exploring a sale of its blood glucose meters business, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, as the in...
Federal regulators approved a new drug Wednesday from Bayer AG (BAYN.XE, BAYRY) to treat certain types of advanced prostate cancer.The drug will be sold with the bra...
Italian oil and gas giant ENI S.p.A. (E) has lost an appeal to get an earlier European Union cartel fine scrapped or reduced, after the bloc's top court upheld an ea...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG (BAYN.XE) said Friday it has discontinued a Phase II/III trial for its BAY 86-6150 compound in people with hemophilia A and he...
The S&P 500 traded into record high territory on Monday as the markets started the week off on a strong note.A rally in U.S. stocks was sparked in part by better tha...