AmerisourceBergen Gets $3.8 Billion in Pentagon Deals and Johnson & Johnson Profits Beat Wall Street Expectation.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-27 January 2005-FNWU: AmerisourceBergen Gets $3.8 Billion in Pentagon Deals and Johnson & Johnson Profits Beat Wall Street Expectation(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01272005 City of Industry, CA - Biotechnology industry news provided by (OTC: FNWU). AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp.

(NYSE: ABC), Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, has received health-related contracts valued at up to a combined total of $3.8 billion, the U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday. Health-care company Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), up 1.5 percent at $64.65, helped drive the Dow higher for the second straight day. On Tuesday, J&J reported a profit that beat Wall Street's expectations. Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN) shares, climbed 2.24 percent to $63.56 after analysts at...