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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday September 15 2016, @02:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the gimme-an-aspirin dept.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-deal-idUSKCN11K128

German drugs and crop chemicals company Bayer has won over U.S. seeds firm Monsanto with an improved takeover offer of $66 billion including debt, ending months of wrangling after increasing its bid for a third time. The $128 a share deal announced on Wednesday, up from Bayer's previous offer of $127.50 a share, is the biggest of the year so far and the largest cash bid on record.

The transaction will create a company commanding more than a quarter of the combined world market for seeds and pesticides in a fast-consolidating farm supplies industry. However, competition authorities are likely to scrutinize the tie-up closely, and some of Bayer's own shareholders have been critical of a takeover plan which they say is too expensive and risks neglecting the company's pharmaceutical business.

"Bayer's competitors are merging, so not doing this deal would mean having a competitive disadvantage," said Markus Manns, a fund manager at Union Investment, one of Bayer's top 12 investors, according to ThomsonReuters data.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @03:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @03:57PM (#402331)

    Have any of the presidential candidates promised to beef up anti-trust?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 15 2016, @04:04PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday September 15 2016, @04:04PM (#402334) Journal

    If I had to guess, it would be Jill Stein.

    Both Stein and Johnson have filed an antitrust suit [cnn.com] against the Commission on Presidential Debates, which messes with the search results a bit.

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @04:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @04:24PM (#402345)

      > If I had to guess, it would be Jill Stein.

      Clinton. [qz.com]

      I will prevent concentration in the first place by beefing up the antitrust enforcement arms of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. I will direct more resources to hire aggressive regulators who will conduct in-depth industry research to better understand the link between market consolidation and stagnating incomes. Ultimately, this will foster a change in corporate culture that restores competition to the marketplace.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:07PM (#402416)

        If only I could actually believe that Ms Goldman Sachs means that beyond, "Don't vote for Bernie, I'm just a left as he is."

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:17PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:17PM (#402420)

          At least she went officially on the record.
          That's the basis for holding politicians accountable.

          • (Score: 4, Informative) by Geotti on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:48PM

            by Geotti (1146) on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:48PM (#402466) Journal

            "I will close Gitmo," "no (more) boots in Iraq and Syria," "get out of Afghanistan" say what? Sorry, but nobody will remember her populistic promises, once she starts WWIII.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @09:36PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @09:36PM (#402486)

              > "I will close Gitmo," "no (more) boots in Iraq and Syria," "get out of Afghanistan" say what?

              Don't be that dumbass who thinks that if 100% of promises are not kept then no promises were kept.
              Guys like make it easier for politicians to bail on their promises because if they get no credit, why bother keeping any promises?

              http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/ [politifact.com]
              Promise Kept      45%
              Compromise        25%
              Promise Broken    22%
              Stalled            2%
              In the Works       6%

              • (Score: 3, Insightful) by t-3 on Friday September 16 2016, @12:22AM

                by t-3 (4907) on Friday September 16 2016, @12:22AM (#402545)

                These statistics mean nothing. The promises Obama made loudest, the most times, in front of the most people, were the ones he broke. Whether or not he was "mostly honest" overall taking all his statements at an equal ranking doesn't matter, because the promises that carried weight with the electorate were broken, and he allowed political gridlock and bs to give us a raw deal on the one major promise he kept/tried to keep.

                • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @12:35AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @12:35AM (#402550)

                  > he allowed political gridlock and bs to give us a raw deal on the one major promise he kept/tried to keep.

                  Yeah, he allowed gridlock.
                  Its insights like that which keep me coming back to soylent.

                  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday September 16 2016, @04:34AM

                    by t-3 (4907) on Friday September 16 2016, @04:34AM (#402619)

                    Obama/Romney/WTF-Care was worse for mostly everyone. Rather than scrap the whole thing when it gets to that point, Obama and the Democrats pushed it through and called it a victory. So yes, he allowed gridlock to fuck over the people he was purportedly helping. Not "allowed gridlock", but "allowed gridlock to fuck over"... but reading comprehension is a bit much to expect from an AC I guess.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 16 2016, @02:46PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 16 2016, @02:46PM (#402804) Journal

        the woman "pivots" so often, you don't even know which side of her mouth she is talking out of. The last time I believed anything she said was - ohhhh - let me think - well, I don't guess I EVER believed anything she said.