Bloomberg Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. faces a European Union antitrust probe for ramping up the price of cancer drugs as the EU joins a global crackdown on the soaring cost of life-saving generic medicines. “When the price of a drug suddenly goes up by several hundred percent, this is something the commission may look at,” EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager …

Bloomberg Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. agreed to buy Dutch drug-ingredients maker Patheon NV for $5.2 billion, extending the acquisition binge that helped turn it into one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of diagnostic and testing equipment. Thermo Fisher will pay $35 a share in cash, 35 percent above Patheon’s closing price, before Bloomberg News reported that the companies were in …

Bloomberg RWE AG jumped to the highest since July after Germany’s biggest power producer said profit is on target and it plans to pay a dividend for the first time in three years. The Essen-based utility’s efforts to boost plant efficiency and the contribution of energy trading is helping compensate for weak power prices, Markus Krebber, chief financial officer at …