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An issue of Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) debt rose 2.4% as a percentage of its face value during trading on Friday, American Banking News reports. The high-yield debt issue has a 7.375% coupon and is set to mature on December 10, 2037. Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) belongs to Financial sector. Its net profit margin is 31.20% and weekly performance is 0.70%. On last trading day … Continue reading Trader’s Watch List: Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), ClearOne, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLRO), EP Energy Corporation (NYSE:EPE)

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U. S. authorities on Wednesday approved Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) ’s $43 billion merger with fellow medical device maker Covidien PLC after requiring the spinoff of a drug-coated catheter business. Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) belongs to Healthcare sector. Its net profit margin is 22.90% and weekly performance is 2.40%. On last trading day company shares ended up $73.48. Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) distance from 50-day simple moving average … Continue reading Hot Stock List: Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB), U.S. Concrete, Inc. (NASDAQ:USCR), Viasystems Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAS), Rio Tinto plc (NYSE:RIO)

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U.S. medical device maker Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) is likely to try to renegotiate the structure and terms of its $42.9 billion deal to buy Ireland’s Covidien Plc in response to new U.S. tax rules, according to people familiar with the situation. Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) belongs to Healthcare sector. Its net profit margin is 22.90% and weekly performance is 0.58%. On last trading day company shares … Continue reading Hot Stocks : Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM), Linn Co, LLC (NASDAQ:LNCO), Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE:PKE), Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU)

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Medtronic Inc (NYSE:MDT) has launched its new cardiac resynchronisation therapy-pacemaker, Viva CRT-P in India which received the CE (Conformité Européenne) mark in May this year. The Viva CRT-P includes the Medtronic-exclusive AdaptivCRT software, which is the only algorithm demonstrated to improve heart failure patients’ response to the therapy and reduce the risk of atrial fibrillation (as compared to conventional biventricular therapy). Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) belongs … Continue reading Watch List : Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), Walgreen (NYSE:WAG), Castle Brands (NYSEMKT:ROX), Basic Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:BAS), Burger King Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:BKW)

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Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the launch of the NuVent(TM) EM Sinus Dilation System for the Fusion® ENT Navigation System, developed and manufactured by the company’s Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) division of its Surgical Technologies business. NuVent is the first and only balloon sinus dilation system with built-in electromagnetic (EM) surgical navigation technology to help the surgeon confirm anatomy and optimize balloon placement during … Continue reading Active Stocks to Watch: Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), AT&T (NYSE:T), Dr Pepper Snapple (NYSE:DPS), Hennessy Advisors (NASDAQ:HNNA), Eaton Vance Limited (NYSEMKT:EVV)

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BioTech Stock News in Video : Valeant (NYSE:VRX) vs Allergan (NYSE:AGN) Takeover Battle, Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) + Covidien (NYSE:COV) $45 Billion Deal in Video + GMO Experiments

A source familiar with the matter said on Saturday, Medical-device maker Medtronic Inc and rival Covidien, are in advanced talks to combine in a deal valued at $45 billion to $50 billion. The person said, asking not to be named because the matter is not public, the deal, which would allow Medtronic to be domiciled in Ireland where Covidien is based and thus take advantage of lower tax rates, could come as soon as Monday. Minneapolis-based Medtronic, which makes cardiovascular and orthopedic devices, has a market value of about $61 billion.

An executive vice-president of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc will leave the company, even as the Canadian drugmaker fends off criticism about management turnover from its takeover target Allergan Inc . Valeant confirmed late on Friday after inquiries by Reuters, Executive vice-president and company group chairman Ryan Weldon will leave. Like Chief Executive Mike Pearson, Weldon previously worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Valeant said Weldon’s departure was planned, and takes effect after it completes a $1.4 billion sale of several injectable treatments to Nestle SA.

Before residents in southern Oregon overwhelmingly voted to ban genetically modified crops last month, farmers negotiated for months with a biotech company that grows engineered sugar beets near their fields. Their goal was to set up a system to peacefully coexist, an online mapping database of fields to help growers minimize cross-pollination between engineered and non-engineered crops. But the effort between farmers and Swiss company Syngenta failed, leading to the ban. Last October, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber directed the state’s Department of Agriculture to undertake something far more ambitious than that failed mapping effort — map GMO field locations across the entire state and establish buffer zones and exclusion areas for GE crops.

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