Moody’s downgrades Merck after hybrid bond

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Moody’s downgrades Merck after hybrid bond

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Moody’s downgraded Merck KGaA from A3 to Baa1 on Friday December 12, just four days after the German pharmaceutical company had issued €1.5bn of hybrid bonds as part of the funding of its acquisition of US life sciences company Sigma-Aldrich.

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