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...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...The company’s pipeline had been transformed since the Parisian saw off a takeover bid from Pfizer in 2014....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...A US circuit court said as much as part of the 1979 case of Zweig v Hearst Corp, which found that a newspaper columnist touting a stock could be sued for securities fraud for failing to disclose he owned...
...Even today, Fox has just one woman on its board....
...Then came the pièce de résistance — a $71.3bn deal to buy Twenty-First Century Fox from the Murdochs....
...Pfizer is the sole supplier of vincristine, while Teva makes a branded version of the medicine known as Vincasar....
...(FT, NYT) Pfizer’s unusual U-turn Last week, we published an exclusive story about US drugmaker Pfizer lifting the price of Viagra and 100 other products....
...GBH’s price target would imply a market cap of about $217.35bn for Netflix — compared with $173.5bn at present — and would put it just ahead of where Pfizer, Mastercard, Cisco and Boeing are sitting today...
...behind hit Fox shows such as The People v OJ Simpson and Glee....
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...In the age of the PC, it was all about Intel v Advanced Micro Devices, with the former supplying processors for four out of five computers sold and AMD mopping up most of the remainder....
...Both Oracle and 21st Century Fox have long histories of clashes with Google over a range of issues....
...(NYT) News Round-up Private equity funds receive record amounts of capital (FT) China’s hobbled dealmakers yield foreign M&A crown to Japan Inc....
...Fox News led the cable news networks with 11.4m viewers — including 3.5m in the coveted 25 to 54-year-old age bracket — followed by CNN with 9.8m and MSNBC with 4.9m....
...(Fox) Campaign commentary How Clinton could knock out Trump (Thomas Friedman, NYT) Trump and Putin: a love story (David Remnick, New Yorker) The Lena Dunham v Duck Dynasty election (Michael Wolff, THR...
...(NYT) Roger Ailes advising Trump The former Fox News chairman ousted last month over sexual harassment claims is advising the Republican ahead of the presidential debates this fall....
...(FT) Murdoch v Trump: Fox and The Hair Donald Trump has gone to war with an unlikely enemy....
...He has played an important role in many recent cross-border deals involving the UK including helping AstraZeneca fight off a bid from Pfizer....
...Chairman Leif Johansson triggered a paper loss last year when he rebuffed a £55-a-share bid from Pfizer. The shares remain £10 cheaper....
...But there was no joking about Univision’s interest in The Onion, whose properties include the pop culture-focused A.V....
...Among their investors are Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, Google Capital, the National Hockey League and NFL owners Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones....
...Pfizer (Biotech & Pharma) 36. JPMorgan Chase (Finance) 37. Diageo (Consumer Goods) 38. General Electric (Industrial conglomerate) 39. Chevron (Oil & Gas) 40. Deutsche Bank (Finance) 41....
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