{"id":76903,"date":"2026-08-03T03:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/astrazeneca-holds-talks-with-bristol-myers-squibb-on-400bn-merger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:56:46","slug":"astrazeneca-holds-talks-with-bristol-myers-squibb-on-400bn-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/astrazeneca-holds-talks-with-bristol-myers-squibb-on-400bn-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world\u2019s fourth-largest drugmaker<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/aug\/03\/uk-economy-recession-strait-hormuz-closed-oil-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britain\u2019s biggest drugmaker, AstraZeneca, is understood to be in discussions to take over its US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal that would create a near-$400bn (\u00a3300bn) pharmaceutical group.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca, run by Pascal Soriot, its longtime chief executive, is the second-biggest listed company in the UK, with a market value of nearly \u00a3196bn before the news broke. BMS, headquartered in Princeton and known for its cancer treatments, is worth $133bn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/03\/astrazeneca-talks-bristol-myers-squibb-merger-pharmaceuticals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world\u2019s fourth-largest drugmaker Business live \u2013 latest updates Britain\u2019s biggest drugmaker, AstraZeneca, is understood to be in discussions to take over its US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal that would create a near-$400bn (\u00a3300bn) pharmaceutical group. AstraZeneca, run by Pascal Soriot, &#8230; <a title=\"AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/astrazeneca-holds-talks-with-bristol-myers-squibb-on-400bn-merger\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}