Rice Energy Inc RICE shares are trading higher by $5.26, or 26.71 percent, at $24.95 in Monday's session. Before the open, it was announced that EQT Corporation EQT will acquire the company for $6.70 billion. That includes at $0.37 shares of common stocks along $5.30/share in cash. That is well below the all-time-high for the stock that was made in June 2014 at $34.34.
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