{"id":145986,"date":"2018-05-29T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145986"},"modified":"2018-05-29T21:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:12:03","slug":"bayer-ag-monsanto-merger-approved-with-spin-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145986","title":{"rendered":"Bayer AG, Monsanto merger approved, with spin offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-107352\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/monsanto-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"126\" \/>Washington\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 \u00a0German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG has agreed to the U.S. government&#8217;s demand that it sell about $9 billion in agriculture businesses. The sale is a condition for acquiring Monsanto Co., a U.S. seed and weed-killer maker. Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department say it&#8217;s the biggest divestiture ever required for a merger.<\/p>\n<p>Federal antitrust regulators have granted agribusiness giants Bayer and Monsanto permission to merge after the two companies agreed to spin off $9 billion worth of assets, the largest such sale of corporate assets ever required by the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 \u00a0German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG has agreed to the U.S. government&#8217;s demand that it sell about $9 billion in agriculture businesses. The sale is a condition for acquiring Monsanto Co., a U.S. seed and weed-killer maker. Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department say it&#8217;s the biggest divestiture ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146007,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145986\/revisions\/146007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}