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AstraZeneca (NASDAQ: AZN) and Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) are the two directly affected public companies; AZN bears the most immediate price risk given it absorbed a roughly 9% single-day selloff on Monday when the merger speculation first emerged, while BMY shareholders were widely viewed as the primary beneficiaries of any combination.

Bristol Myers Squibb stock is surging Monday following a report of a potential mega-merger with a competitor.

Agenus is financially abandoning an ongoing study in late-line colorectal cancer. Elsewhere, an ebola vaccine began human testing and an important Bristol Myers medicine got an FDA decision date.