Pharmaceutical company stocks were among the winners in early trading Wednesday as Republicans’ sweeping election victory eased concerns that Democrats would enact controls on drug prices. Eli Lilly and Co. shares jumped 4 percent.
Global markets were thrown into disarray as early results from the U.S. election raised the possibility that Donald Trump may prevail over Hillary Clinton in the race for the presidency.
Dow Agrosciences parent Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. face further delays to their plans to create the world’s biggest chemical company
The World Series ended on an incredibly high note, with the 8-7 victory by the Chicago Cubs over the Cleveland Indians ranking as the most-watched baseball game in 25 years.
Cubs fans had been waiting more than a century for this triumph, and the rush for celebratory merchandise is on. Zionsville-based Lids Sports Group is using extra workers to make sure key stores have caps available as soon as possible.
If Indianapolis-based Anthem retreats from the Affordable Care Act, it would mean that almost all of the major American for-profit health insurers have substantially pulled back from the law.
Makers of insulin became the latest target for Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has been going after pharmaceutical companies one by one over the issue of high U.S. drug prices.
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences said sales and operating earnings rose in the third quarter, thanks in part to strong demand for products in Latin America. Meanwhile, the massive merger between parent Dow Chemical and DuPont has been delayed.
Drugmakers including Eli Lilly and Co. are becoming increasingly vocal in fighting a California ballot proposition designed to bring down prices on prescription medicine.
AT&T Inc.’s planned $85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc. mirrors Comcast Corp.’s successful acquisition of NBCUniversal, but the latest pairing faces a potentially rockier path through Washington, D.C.
Corn containing the Herculex trait isn’t controlling the western bean cutworm, six entomologists from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania wrote in an " open letter to the seed industry" posted on the website of Purdue University.
Shares in Taubman Centers Inc. surged Wednesday, one day after Jonathan Litt, an activist investor known for targeting real estate companies, pushed for the mall owner to cut costs or consider a sale of the company.
The residents who sued sought to revoke the school’s property-tax exemption, in part because Princeton shares commercial royalties with faculty from a patent that Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. turned into the cancer drug Alimta.
Enrollment in the Obamacare insurance marketplace is likely to stall or even decline for 2017 after two years of growth, according to S&P Global Ratings forecasts.
Farmers may be worried about the multibillion-dollar deals transforming the agriculture industry, but independent seed companies like Indiana-based Beck’s Hybrids see the consolidation as an opportunity.
Presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday received full support from running mate Mike Pence, who shut down talk of quitting the ticket despite his disapproval of Trump’s crude remarks about women. Pence also downplayed any disagreement with Trump over their stance on Syria.
A chorus of Republican leaders on Saturday said vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is well suited to move to the top of the ticket if they can persuade Donald Trump to quit.
A chorus of Republican leaders on Saturday said vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is well suited to move to the top of the ticket if they can persuade Donald Trump to quit.
The vice presidential nominee said he was "offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump," and he called on the GOP presidential nomineee "to show what is in his heart" when he appears at Sunday night's presidential debate.
Letters and emails between the two companies might become evidence in the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to halt the $48 billion deal.
