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The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Robert Steyer	Just Say No to Drug Company Mergers There are some reasons to make a big-pharma deal. But there are as many, if not more, reasons to let these companies pursue smaller deals and collaborations rather than become just another part of a hyphenated corporate name.
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The Motley Fool November 5, 2009 Brian Orelli	Slow Down There, Merck Merck CEO Richard Clark says his company is looking to do more deals than ever, perhaps "even try to double" the current rate of 50 per year.
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The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	2007 Pharma Roundup How did big pharma do in 2007? With the drug sector earnings season winding down, now seems like a good time to take a look at how they fared and, more importantly, where they're headed.
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The Motley Fool June 30, 2011 Brian Orelli	Biotech Winners of a Repatriation Holiday Biotechs and dividend players will come out ahead.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Schizophrenic Move by Merck? Issue $29 billion in shares, buy back $3 billion. Say what? Merck increased its share count by almost 45% to pay for the acquisition of Schering-Plough. Now it's planning to buy some of that stock back.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Which Pharmas Still Have Cash? Pharmaceutical mergers-and-acquisitions activity has been jumping for the past few months, but the consolidation can't go on forever.
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The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Mini-Pfizer in the Making Bristol-Myers Squibb looks like its setting itself up to be the next Pfizer.
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The Motley Fool October 30, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	7 Pharma Stocks Near 52-Week Highs Here are the top seven companies in the pharmaceutical space (by market cap) that are within spitting distance of their 52-week highs: J&J... Novartis... Merck... GlaxoSmithKline... Abbott... AstraZeneca... Novo Nordisk...
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The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 Brian Orelli	Foolish Forecast: A Last Look at "Mini" Pfizer In advance of Pfizer's last earnings report before their acquisition of Wyeth, analysts expect a drop in sales and a bigger bottom line decrease.
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The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pfizer: Diversified Dreams, Dubious Decisions Pfizer's CEO Jeffrey Kindler said he wants to make his company more like Johnson & Johnson and Abbott Labs, which aren't dependent on one product for success.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	Surprise Us in a Good Way, Merck Keeping up productivity during plant closures won't be easy.
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The Motley Fool August 17, 2007 Brian Lawler	The Perfect Pharma Acquisition The pharmaceutical industry has been busy consolidating in the past year. With so much buying and selling going on, here is speculation on what would constitute the perfect pharma acquisition.
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