NEW YORK — Dow Chemical Co.’s board reaffirmed its support for the company’s merger with DuPont after a news report said activist investor Daniel Loeb wants Dow’s CEO to be removed. The Wall Street Journal said Loeb, who heads Third ...

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DOVER, Del. — Dow Chemical and the DuPont Co. announced Friday that they are merging in a $130 billion chemical industry megadeal. The merger would combine two companies that sell agricultural products to millions of farmers around the world, and ...

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Hundreds of health workers lost their lives after being infected while responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Now, a protective suit developed by Johns Hopkins University and designed to keep those workers from contracting the virus will be ...

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The DuPont Co. is warning shareholders that billionaire investor Nelson Peltz has proposed a “high-risk” agenda for the company that would destroy shareholder value. In a shareholder letter Tuesday, DuPont said it has delivered superior shareholder value while laying the ...

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(AP) A fight for control of DuPont Co. is intensifying after the hedge fund led by activist investor Nelson Peltz announced plans to nominate its own slate of four directors to the company’s board. Trian Fund Management LP, which holds ...

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(AP) The DuPont Co. said Tuesday that strong performance in its nutrition and health unit and lower raw material costs contributed to an increase in third-quarter earnings. The Wilmington, Delaware-based science and chemicals company reported net income of $433 million, ...

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(AP) Activist investor Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management LP wants DuPont to separate its business into two companies in an effort to boost shareholder value and improve its financial performance. Trian, which says it has been in private talks with ...

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NEW YORK — Agricultural products giant Monsanto and DuPont on Tuesday said they reached a deal to dismiss pending patent lawsuits against one another and entered a series of multi-million dollar licensing agreements. The lawsuits included antitrust and first-generation Roundup ...

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DOVER, Del. — The DuPont Co. said Tuesday that it will cut about 1,500 jobs and take other steps to increase its competitiveness, after weak demand for a key industrial pigment and uncertainty in the solar panel market led to ...

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DuPont officials plan to appeal “at the earliest possible opportunity” last week’s record-setting $1 billion verdict, in which a federal jury found the company willfully infringed a patent held by Monsanto. After 17 days of trial, it took the jury ...

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