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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....
...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....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...But Kevin Brady, the top Republican tax writer in the House of Representatives, said: “Instead of unveiling commonsense policies to help American employers compete globally and create new jobs for our workers...
...If Mr Ryan stays closely involved in tax it could create friction with the new chair of the tax-writing committee, who is likely to be Kevin Brady or Pat Tiberi....
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Pfizer, the largest US drugmaker by market value, inched down 0.7 per cent to $14.54 as the stock being removed from the “conviction buy” list at Goldman Sachs....
...Pfizer , the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, announced that it had halted trials of a new treatment for lung cancer....
...Last week’s US jobs report has knocked investor confidence, and those predicting a V-shaped recovery are finding it harder to justify their positions....
...This could lead to higher interest rates, which would undermine the whole V-shaped recovery.” But Burt White, chief investment officer for LPL Financial, disagreed....
...This spurred groups such as Pfizer of the US and Roche of Switzerland to strike multi-billion-dollar deals during the first half of this year....
...Shares in the company, which has agreed to be bought by Pfizer, gained 0.8 per cent to $42.60....
...Radio daze Karren Brady, managing director of Birmingham City FC, has resisted the charms of GCap Media’s Ralph Bernard and has decided not to move to London to run Capital Radio....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...He was born in 1954, the year, as he points out, of the famous Brown v Board of Education case which paved the way for US desegregation....
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