Mergers and Acquisitions

The combination of Cigna, a major health insurance provider, and Express Scripts, last major standalone pharmacy benefit manager, holds the possibility of less expensive prescription drugs, or at least a slower rate of cost increases.

The deal between Cigna and Express Scripts follows the merger of health insurer Aetna Inc. and drugstore chain CVS Health Corp.

The cash-and-stock deal will create a powerful rival to the CVS-Aetna combination that was announced late last year.

An auction to sell West Virginia's largest newspaper, the Charleston Gazette-Mail, is scheduled for Thursday.

An Alaska regulator has asked the Legislature to make sure oil companies clean up old wells, even after the wells are sold to a different company.

A group of investors says it has pulled out of a deal to buy the beleaguered Weinstein Co., citing "disappointing information" about the viability of the sale.

All Greek train routes have been suspended for the day as railway workers stage a 24-hour strike to protest the privatization of the rolling stock maintenance company and a lack of staff.

Broadcom said on Monday Qualcomm secretly requested an U.S. national security panel on Jan. 29 to start an investigation into its proposed $117 billion buyout offer.

AXA, Europe's second-biggest insurer, has agreed to buy property and casualty insurance company XL Group for around $15 billion.

A former Obama administration official on Thursday reached a deal to purchase assets of The Weinstein Company and said she will use a majority-female board to rebuild the Hollywood studio tarnished by sexual misconduct allegations.

A group of investors says it has revived a deal to buy assets of the Weinstein Co., potentially saving the beleaguered studio from bankruptcy.

Ring, which also makes cameras and other home security gadgets in addition to its trademark video-enabled doorbells, will operate under Amazon’s massive e-commerce umbrella in a deal valued at more than $1 billion, according to Reuters.

The political strategist and online guru who was named President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager Tuesday has a close financial relationship with a penny-stock firm with a questionable history that includes longstanding ties to a convicted fraudster, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Comcast, the biggest cable operator in the United States, offered to pay $31 billion to buy Sky, the European pay-TV group that has agreed to be sold to Rupert Murdoch's Fox.