Shire shares rock­et up af­ter Take­da says it's pon­der­ing a takeover bid

Take­da said ear­ly Wednes­day that it is con­sid­er­ing mak­ing an of­fer to buy Shire $SH­PG, and it has a clear­ly thought out a set of rea­sons why.

As of now, Take­da said in a state­ment that it has made no for­mal of­fer for Shire, but is ex­plor­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty. That’s ex­act­ly in line with takeover rules to sat­is­fy UK reg­u­la­tors. And Shire’s shares im­me­di­ate­ly blast­ed up­ward, jump­ing 17%. The com­pa­ny start­ed the day with a mar­ket cap of $38 bil­lion.

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