投资者表示，如果拜耳(Bayer)想要拿下孟山都(Monsanto)、完成这笔史上规模最大的全现金收购交易，这家德国集团将不得不增加对收购这家美国农业企业的620亿美元的报价。
Investors are signalling that Bayer will have to increase its $62bn offer for Monsanto if the German group is to win the US agribusiness and complete the biggest all-cash takeover on record.
两家合并将缔造全球最大的种子和农业化学品供应商，目前该行业正被一波重磅交易潮重塑。
A combination between the two would create the world’s largest supplier of seeds and agricultural chemicals, at a time when the sector is being reshaped by a wave of blockbuster deals.
孟山都拒绝就该报价置评，很多分析师预期它将拒绝该报价，称其太低。昨日午后，这家美国企业在纽约的股价上涨了5.27%，明显低于拜耳的收购报价。拜耳的股价收盘下跌4.7%。
Monsanto declined to comment on the offer, which many analysts expect it to reject as too low. The US company’s shares were trading up 5.27 per cent at $106.79 by early afternoon in New York, significantly below Bayer’s offer price. Bayer’s shares closed down 4.7 per cent.
然而，晨星(Morningstar)分析师杰弗里•斯塔福德(Jeffrey Stafford)称，孟山都首次看到收购要约是5月10日，至今尚未回应可能意味着董事会“正在认真考虑这笔交易”。
However, Morningstar analyst Jeffrey Stafford said the fact Monsanto first saw the proposal on May 10 and had yet to respond could mean the board was “seriously considering the deal”.