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The race has become one of the most expensive in Senate history, with around $23 million spent on media.

Eli Lilly is buying three clinical stage vaccine developers for as much as $3.8 billion.

The agreements give the pharma giant access to novel technology and experimental immunizations for shingles, common bacterial pathogens, and Epstein-Barr virus.

Bloomberg's Madison Muller reports it's a return to form after Lilly's highly profitable run into weight loss drugs.

That's Bloomberg's Madison Muller reporting.

Under a proposal from the Office of Personnel Management, federal employees would sign nondisclosure agreements to discourage them from leaking government information to the press and the public.

The proposal is the Trump administration's latest effort to crack down on federal employees leaking non-public information to journalists.

According to the Office of Personnel Management, federal employees are already restricted from disclosing certain kinds of information under federal laws and regulations.

Oil giant BP's board has fired chairman Albert Manifold, who joined the company late last year, with the company rep saying in a statement that, "...the board has been surprised and disappointed to learn of governance oversight and conduct issues it deems unacceptable and has taken decisive action."

Shares of BP fell close to 4.5% in London.

Since Manafort's arrival, BP shares had outperformed some of its rivals while posting first quarter earnings that far exceeded expectations.

As the strain of Ebola continues to spread at a worrying rate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, production of an experimental vaccine from the developers of a COVID-19 shot is expected to begin soon.

The University of Oxford's Pandemic Sciences Institute says clinical trials for the shot could begin in two to three months.

One other vaccine is also in development, but is expected to be ready for testing later than Oxford's.

We check markets all day long here at Bloomberg.

The Dow is down two-tenths of a percent.

The S&P 500 is up a half percent, while the Nasdaq is up close to nine-tenths of one percent.

The 10-year Treasury yield stands at 4.505 percent.

The two-year yield is at 4.065 percent.

The president of the PGA of America, Don Ray Jr., is out effective immediately after initially being suspended by the board of directors on Friday.