{"id":81689,"date":"2018-08-13T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/bayer-shares-plunge-after-monsanto-cancer-ruling"},"modified":"2018-08-13T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:22:21","slug":"bayer-shares-plunge-after-monsanto-cancer-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/bayer-shares-plunge-after-monsanto-cancer-ruling","title":{"rendered":"Bayer shares plunge after Monsanto cancer ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bayer-shares-plunge-after-monsanto-cancer-ruling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shares in German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer tumbled more than 10 percent as markets opened Monday, as investors reacted to a shock US ruling against freshly-acquired Monsanto.<\/p>\n<p>Stock in the Leverkusen-based group fell 10.4 percent to 83.61 euros ($95.19) around 9:25 am (0725 GMT), after a California jury on Friday awarded a dying groundskeeper damages of almost $290 million, saying Monsanto should have warned buyers that its flagship Roundup weedkiller could cause cancer.<\/p>\n<p>While observers have predicted thousands of other claims could follow, Bayer said the jury\u2019s findings went against scientific evidence and that other courts might \u201carrive at different conclusions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-bayer-plunge-monsanto-cancer.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-bayer-plunge-monsanto-cancer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares in German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer tumbled more than 10 percent as markets opened Monday, as investors reacted to a shock US ruling against freshly-acquired Monsanto. Stock in the Leverkusen-based group fell 10.4 percent to 83.61 euros ($95.19) around 9:25 am (0725 GMT), after a California jury on Friday awarded a dying groundskeeper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}