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March 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Apollo Global Management Inc has agreed to acquire chemical company Univar Solutions Inc for $8.1 billion including debt, in one of the biggest recent leveraged buyouts.
- Novo Nordisk is set to cut the U.S. list prices for several insulin drugs by up to 75%, the latest big drugmaker to make steep price reductions amid pressure to curb diabetes-treatment costs.
- Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc said it would cut roughly 10,000 jobs over the coming months in a second wave of mass layoffs in an effort to be more efficient in a difficult economy.
- Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued Norfolk Southern Corp , seeking to hold the company financially responsible for a train derailment in East Palestine.
- Volkswagen is planning a spending spree of close to $200 billion over the next five years to fix its struggling business in China and to try to hoist the German car maker out of its niche as an also-ran in the U.S.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first federal limits on so-called forever chemicals in public drinking water, a move that is expected to cost water utilities billions of dollars to filter out substances that have contaminated the water supplies of millions of people.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)