Companies defend mega-merger as DoJ defers

Halliburton and Baker Hughes defended the merits of their proposed $35 billion merger in response to scepticism shown by US antitrust regulators that will push the deal's closing into 2016 at the earliest.

More time: mega-merger closing pushed into 2016
More time: mega-merger closing pushed into 2016
Published 15 December 2015, 20:33Updated 17 October 2016, 12:08