Baystreet Staff - Monday, April 17, 2017 Alere (ALR) Flies as Abbott Buys Alere Inc (NYSE: ALR) rose 16.3% to $49.20. Abbott Laboratories agreed to buy Alere for $51.00 per share, versus its earlier offer of $56.00 per share. Share volume totaled 11 million, towering over an all-day average of 646,000