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Wesco offers to buy Anixter for $3 billion

This comes a day after Anixter, which supplies communications and security products, said it had agreed to a bid worth $86 per share and $2.50 per share contingent value rights from private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. The equity value of Wesco’s bid for Anixter would be about $3 billion, according to Reuters calculations. Wesco’s per share offer is at a premium of 2.8% to the Anixter stock’s Monday close. …read more […]

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Here’s to Your Health: A Decade of Drug Breakthroughs

(Bloomberg Opinion) — For all the flak the pharmaceutical industry has taken for its exorbitant pricing practices, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s been a pretty stunning decade for medical progress.Multiple new categories of medicines have moved from dreams and lab benches into the market and people’s lives, and investors who came along for the ride often reaped extraordinary profits. The Nasdaq Biotech Index is up 360% over the last 10 years to the S&P 500’s 190%. And that’s without mentioning the hundreds of billions of dollars in takeovers that rewarded shareholders with windfalls. As 2020 …read more […]

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Nissan top executive Seki to resign in blow to turnaround plan

The executive tasked with leading a recovery at Nissan Motor Co Ltd said he had decided to resign just weeks into his new job, a move that could disrupt the automaker’s push to turn the corner on scandal and slumping sales. Jun Seki, Nissan’s vice chief operating officer and a former contender for chief executive, told Reuters he was leaving to become the president of Nidec Corp , a Kyoto-based manufacturer of automotive components and precision motors. …read more […]