Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Merck Surges For Second Day After Procter & Gamble Proposes To Buy Stake – Shares of the Mumbai-based drug maker rose as much as 14.67 percent to record high of Rs 2,020 after it informed exchanges that Procter & Gamble has proposed to buy 8.5 million shares of the company or 51.8 percent equity in the company, Merck said in an exchange filing on Thursday.
