TSE, OSE Suspend Trading in Tanabe Seiyaku
January 18, 2007
Tokyo, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)–The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange briefly suspended trading in shares of Tanabe Seiyaku Co. starting 8:20 a.m. Thursday (11:20 p.m. Wednesday GMT).
The bourses took the step after the Nikkei business daily reported that the company and Mitsubishi Pharma Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. , are in the final stages of merger talks.END
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