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Bayer ordered to pay €1.9 billion by US court in Roundup cancer case

Pharmaceutical company Bayer took over weed killer Roundup in its acquisition of US agrochemical company Monsanto back in 2018. However, it has since been hit with thousands of cancer-related Roundup cases.

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Bayer shares fall as pharma giant’s results fail to cheer investors

Bayer’s share price fell on Tuesday, following the company releasing lacklustre third quarter earnings with a warning that the current challenges may also impact next year’s results as well.

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Bayer stock soars as German pharma company wins Roundup legal battle

Shares in German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Bayer climbed nearly 13% on Friday after the company won a legal battle in the US related to its Roundup weedkiller.

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Bayer reaps benefits of demand for new cancer and kidney medicines

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG released its second quarter and half year 2024 earnings on Tuesday morning, with the company seeing an average performance in the second quarter, due to the agricultural market environment becoming tougher.

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Headache for Bayer as results show fall in Q1 sales and earnings

Mixed earnings results from the German Bayer Group put the pharmaceutical giant's share prices on a rollercoaster ride in Tuesday's early trading.

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Parliament reinforces support for GMO deregulation

Backers of a new generation of genetically modified crops have urged governments to support the new technology after the EUropean Parliament restated its support.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

The German pharmaceutical group sees annual sales drop as its CEO admits the firm has four challenges that "urgently must be addressed".

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Bayer to pay $10.9 billion to settle weedkiller cancer lawsuits

German chemical giant Bayer said Wednesday it would pay up to $10.9 billion (9.6 billion euros) to settle a wave of lawsuits from Americans who allege its Roundup weedkiller caused their cancers.

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Bayer shares plunge over weedkiller trial

Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 percent on Monday, losing about €12 billion in value, after newly acquired Monsanto was ordered to pay €250 million in damages in the first of possibly thousands of US lawsuits over alleged links between a weedkiller and cancer.

World News

Bayer-Monsanto merger plan protests

Campaigners say the proposed Bayer-Monsanto EU deal will create a large conglomerate with too much market share

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Euroviews. Beware the food barons: view

Despite criticism, the industrial-agriculture sector has taken virtually no steps to improve quality and sustainability or promote social justice

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Bayer-Monsanto merger a "marriage made in hell", say activists

Environmental group Friends of the Earth staged protest action outside the European Commission on Thursday (March 30) against the planned merger of German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer and US see

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Bayer-Monsanto merger is 'marriage made in hell,' say activists

Environmental campaigners have turned out in Brussels to demand the EU blocks a deal that would create the world’s biggest seeds and pesticides company.

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Bayer to buy Monsanto in latest agrochemicals consolidation

A huge merger has been announced in the agriculture world as German drugs and crop chemicals company Bayer has won over US seeds firm Monsanto.

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Bayer raises bid price for Monsanto

Bayer's quest to become the world's largest producer of seeds and pesticides has led it to raise the price it is willing to pay for US firm Monsanto to more than $65 billion.

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Monsanto rejects Bayer multi-billion dollar bid

Monsanto has rejected an offer worth $62 billion (55.6 billion euros) from Bayer trying to create the world's biggest agricultural supplier.

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Bayer 'confident' Monsanto offer will be accepted

Germany's Bayer has offered to buy US seeds company Monsanto for $62 billion (55 billion euros) in cash trying to gain the top spot in the fast-consolidating farm supplies industry.