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A source close to the matter told Reuters there is "no deal" and there "never was a deal to be done" between the two drugmakers
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A source close to the matter told Reuters there is "no deal" and there "never was a deal to be done" between the two drugmakers
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Proposed $400bn tie-up with Bristol Myers Squibb would create world’s fourth-largest drugmaker but analysts question rationale More than £17bn was wiped off the value of Britain’s biggest drugmaker, AstraZeneca, on Monday after a report that it was in discussions to take over its US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal that would create a near $400bn (£300bn) pharmaceutical group. AstraZeneca, run by Pascal Soriot, its longtime chief executive, had been worth nearly £196bn before the news broke. BMS, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, and known for its cancer treatments, was worth $133...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Senior source denied AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb were ever in merger talks.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Guardian US (Aug 3, 2026, 16:32 UTC); the most recent came from Quartz (Aug 5, 2026, 13:20 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 2 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “bristol myers squibb”.
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