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Monsanto Needs to Decide If Laggard Syngenta Warrants Higher Bid

2015-05-10 02:57:36| Chemicals - Topix.net

Monsanto Co.' s rejected $45 billion bid for Syngenta AG forces the suitor to ask itself the same hard question as disappointed shareholders of the target company: is the Swiss maker of agrochemicals really worth more? Before the offer was unveiled on Friday, investors suffered a 2.9 percent drop in Syngenta's share price over the last 12 months as the Swiss company struggled to keep pace with peers.

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Australia a laggard rather than leader on climate change, says Wayne Swan

2014-10-15 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Australia has gone from lifter to leaner on action against climate change, and must not block the topics inclusion on the agenda for the G20 summit in Brisbane next month, the former treasurer Wayne Swan will say. In a speech to the Lowy Institute on Wednesday, Swan will argue that Tony Abbott plans to list the fig leaf of energy efficiency on the agenda as a means to camouflage the anger and dismay within the international community at Australias stance as the first nation to go backwards....

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