New York, December 04, 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service assigned a provisional (P)Baa2 rating to the proposed senior unsecured note offering of Becton, Dickinson and Company (Becton). The proceeds of this offering will be used to fund a portion of the acquisition of CareFusion Corporation. Moody's also affirmed the company's Prime-2 short-term rating. Becton anticipates that the acquisition will close in the first half of 2015.

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