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...Net income increased slightly to a record R$2.2bn ($424mn), despite a R$1.2bn provision linked to a retail chain hit by an accounting scandal that affected several other lenders in Brazil....
...Merck, BMS, J&J, Novartis and some trade groups have launched a legal broadside against them, filing lawsuits in several different courts across the US....
...Prominent US bankruptcy judge David R Jones will step away from hearing large cases as a federal appeals court investigates his alleged failure to disclose a romantic relationship with a prominent bankruptcy...
...“The odds that we wake up and see a J&J or Lilly do something big like buying Alnylam, Incyte or Vertex goes down from where it would have been,” said Stifel’s Opler....
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...Other unexpected court venues have also attracted cases: Richmond, Virginia, has become a hub for retail bankruptcies including Toys R Us and J Crew....
...My desk diary for 2012 had “R&J Polunin” inked in for March 10, but there is a red line through it because the Ukrainian star, who was scheduled to learn a string of major roles that season, had a total...
...Andrew J Oswald: The oil shocks of the 1970s. David Page: In many ways each downturn is unique and no historic comparison is perfect....
...Max J Zenglein, chief economist at Mercator Institute for China Studies, a think-tank, agreed that a pick-up was unlikely in the coming months....
...PetrickAssociate Professor of Economics, Western New England University Antonio FatasInsead George EvansProfessor of Economics, University of Oregon, and part-time Professor, University of St Andrews David...
...The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine has shown some early clinical evidence that it remains effective against the strain, J&J and Novavax have clinical studies showing they are less effective but not ineffective....
...Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow...
...But Paul Stoffels, J&J chief scientific officer, said he trusts his 30,000-strong R&D division: “He always asks the right questions, about the risks, and how this works....
...Andrew J Oswald, professor of economics at the University of Warwick: No. Slower. David Owen, MD and chief European economist at Jefferies: No....
...Creditors like Marble Ridge for years had been complaining about how buyout firms with stakes in companies such as Toys R Us and J Crew had been pushing legal and ethical boundaries to avoid having their...
...Another called possible fines “manageable” for J&J, which is the world’s largest healthcare company. Meanwhile families such as the Fullers live with their loss every day....
...In 1959, the New Orleans Times-Picayune profiled a 17-year-old named Malcolm J “Mac” Rebennack, “a boy with 4,000 songs”....
...R is for robbed — the eventual status of every crypto-exchange....
...martin.wolf@ft.com Letters in response to this column: We can’t help feeling that we today are smarter / From Alex J Pollock, R Street Institute, Washington, DC, US Disaster myopia applies equally to...
...In theory, the disappearance of Toys R Us should have benefited remaining participants....
...Cohiba, from £12.40; Partagas No 4, from £21.50; James J Fox, 19 St James’s St, London SW1 (jjfox.co.uk) My favourite website is LeFigaro.fr, for all the news of the day....
...“Everything that we import has become more expensive, it’s that simple,” said David Gleave, managing director of supplier Liberty Wines....
...Toys R Us and Maplin yield to high street’s chill winds The UK arm of Toys R Us called in administrators on Wednesday morning after failing to find a buyer....
...At the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston earlier this week, more than 10,000 evacuees sought refuge....
...Schulte Roth & Zabel has hired Anthony J Taylor as special counsel in the investment management group....
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