Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week
Noteworthy expenditures of the week
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1. U.S. health insurer WellPoint will pay $4.9 billion for Amerigroup, a move that may spur a wave of acquisitions as companies compete to manage an expanding Medicaid market.
2. The world’s No. 1 semiconductor maker, Intel, agreed to invest as much as $4.1 billion in Dutch chip equipment maker ASML Holding to speed development of new production techniques.