Shares of SolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY) rallied about 14% by afternoon trade. The stock has been gaining since last week after the company announced that it entered in a financing deal with Goldman Sachs. According to the deal, Goldman Sachs will fund in excess of $500 million on solar projects managed by San Mateo, Calif. based Company.
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Generic drug maker Actavis Inc (NYSE: ACT) announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire specialty pharmaceutical Company, Warner Chilcott Plc (NASDAQ: WCRX) in stock swap deal, valued at almost $5 billion.
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Shares of Conceptus Inc. (NASDAQ: CPTS) rallied about 19.40% by afternoon trade after Bayer AG said that it has agreed to acquire Conceptus in deal estimated at euro 852 million ( $1.1 billion ) as the health-care company looks to gain traction in women contraceptive market. Bayer said that in next 10 days period, it will issue a tender with a proposal to buy all of Conceptus’s stock, valuing each share at $31 in cash, which represents a 20% premium over Friday’s closing stock price. The deal is likely to close by the second quarter of this year.
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