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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....
...Audio Books From comic, compelling reflections on ADHD and autism to pure escapism in Paris, Alex Clark rounds up the best new audio books — including an epic celebration of Terry Pratchett....
...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....
...Purpose-seeking companies should take note, writes Pilita Clark. Follow our live blog for the latest....
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...UK ministers and media branded Monday “V-Day” as the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were administered....
...What appears to be happening is that Mr Clark is trying to hold Melrose to a standard of national interest under the guise of a national security test....
...(NYT, New Statesman) Dementia drug blow The difficulty of finding drugs to treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases was underlined by Pfizer's withdrawal from research....
...Rival Kimberly-Clark announced it was laying off 5,000 employees as it revealed declining prices for products such as nappies....
...Greg Clark, business secretary, said life sciences was one of the UK’s fastest developing industries, employing 233,000 people and generating turnover of more than £64bn....
...Consumer goods companies such as P&G and Kimberly-Clark are also expected to fall victim to any further strengthening in the dollar, having expanded rapidly overseas in recent years to offset flagging domestic...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Dalian Wanda's Wang Jianlin confirmed in an interview at his Beijing headquarters that the capital controls edict was a major reason for pulling his bid for Hollywood studio Dick Clark Productions, though...
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...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
James Blitz and Ravi Mattu on the battle over phone security
...(FT) Clark seeks top UN role Helen Clark, former New Zealand prime minister, has ended months of speculation by announcing her candidacy to become the next UN secretary-general....
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
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...“Pfizer never quantified the extent to which tax benefits were important to its evaluation of AstraZeneca,” said Mark Clark at Deutsche Bank....
...“AstraZeneca can genuinely boast a potentially exciting pipeline but promise and sales do not necessarily match up in this risky and competitive industry,” says Mark Clark, analyst at Deutsche Bank....
...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)....
...Related reading: China’s nappy war: Mamy Poko v Pampers & Huggies, beyondbrics Nappies, growth and the bottom line, FT Kimberly-Clark takes aim at Russian nappy market, beyondbrics...
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