Katharina Bart

Reading Time: 3 minutes Zurich | Reuters –– Syngenta’s shares jumped Tuesday after a media report that the Swiss crop chemical maker had been in talks about a US$40 billion takeover by U.S. rival Monsanto to create the world’s largest agrochemical company. Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, and Syngenta had held preliminary talks about combining, partly to allow […] Read more