Story Stocks: Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Merck (NYSE:MRK), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX)
October 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM EDT
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) said it is buying fellow drug maker King Pharmaceuticals (KG) for $3.6 billion, or $14.25 a share, in cash. The offer represents a premium of roughly 40% to King Pharma’s recent share price. Pfizer said the deal would add 2 cents a share to its 2011 and 2012 earnings. In other news, Health-care giant Merck (NYSE:MRK) and H. Lundbeck AS agreed to jointly market Sycrest tablets to treat mania in patients with bipolar disorder. Lundbeck will pay Merck fees and other amounts for the rights to market the drug outside the U.S. –MarketWatch Oil producers led by Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Tullow Oil Plc tripled spending in sub- Saharan Africa to $30 billion a year… . . . → Full Story: Story Stocks: Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Merck (NYSE:MRK), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX)