The business news thread

Viacom will certainly reject CBS's offer -- so why would CBS make such an offer?

CBS plans all-stock bid for Viacom below current valuation: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1H91UE

Here we go again -- another day, another data breach.

Panera Bread data breach affected anywhere between 10,000 and 37 million customers

http://www.yahoo.com/news/panera-bre...033420436.html

Another day, another data breach. Today, two for the price of one.

Delta, Sears suffer big data breach

http://www.rttnews.com/2879564/delta...ta-breach.aspx

US Airways had ordered 22 A350s from Airbus. Now that US Airways has merged with American Airlines, the order has been canceled. Tough break, Airbus!

Boeing clinches $12 billion deal to sell 47 787 Dreamliner jets to American Airlines

http://www.money.cnn.com/2018/04/06/...ers/index.html

Wouldn't it be nice if pharmaceutical companies lowered drug prices instead of charging exorbitant prices, making obscenely high profits and spending billions of dollars on mergers and buyouts?

Swiss drugmaker Novartis acquires gene therapy company AveXis for $8.7 billion

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...D=ansmsnnews11

What did I just say about pharmaceutical companies? Here we go again -- and this deal is valued at $62.5 billion!

Bayer reaches deal with US for approval to buy Monsanto

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...-idUSKBN1HG2ST

Necco Wafers taste like a combination of chalk and drywall and yet they've been produced continuously since 1847. Go figure!

People begin hoarding Necco Wafers as manufacturer eyes possible shutdown

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/...rding-closing/

Walmart and Amazon are business rivals and India is becoming a major battlefield for them.

Wamart in talks to buy more than 40% of Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fl...-idUSKCN1G00MU

A record-high quarterly profit of $8,710,000,000, thanks to high interest rates and Trump's huge tax cuts for banks, corporations, millionaires and billionaires. The rich get richer.

JPMorgan Chase posts record-high first-quarter profit

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/j...lity-a-concern

Cable and satellite tv providers used to regard Netflix as a rival and a threat -- but no longer. I guess Stranger Things have happened.

Comcast to include Netflix subscriptions in its cable packages

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...cable-packages