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...Traditional WeightWatchers members, such as Rod Zimmerman, combined in-person meetings with a points-based system to control their weight....
...A day after almost half of Shire shareholders voted against the drugmaker’s remuneration report at its annual meeting in Dublin, the chief executive served a reminder of why the board saw fit to increase...
...Two deals with NPS Pharma and Dyax followed, but the pursuit of Baxalta was by far the most ambitious....
...A physician survey suggested that the two drugs could be worth $9bn on present value, against Shire’s NPS purchase price in January of $5.2bn, UBS said....
...In clinical trials, Vyvanse was shown to reduce the mean number of “binge days” per week from 4.79 to 0.78, compared with a reduction to 2.22 for those given a placebo....
...The shares ended the day at $220.22....
...Roche, Johnson & Johnson and Biogen Idec were among drugmakers to announce tie-ups on Monday, a day after Shire agreed to buy NPS Pharmaceuticals for $5.2bn....
...Elliott’s announcement came a day after Samsung Electronics said it had no plans to acquire the IT services business Samsung SDS, in which Lee Jae-yong is the major shareholder....
...The NPS has taken stands against chaebol management: it opposed the re-election of two Hyundai Motor Group company directors over the Seoul land purchase and last month voted against the merger of two SK...
...Within days, he had revived Shire’s own expansion plans that had been put on hold when AbbVie came calling....
...Until recently, the pool of specialty targets included Salix, a gastrointestinal drugmaker that is selling itself to Valeant, and NPS Pharma, which was acquired in January by Shire....
...(Bloomberg) Shire’s $5.2bn deal Britain’s third-largest drugmaker by market value will buy US biotechnology company NPS – its biggest ever acquisition ....
...The following day the House of Representatives passed a bill to delay part of the Volcker rule, a provision that limits bank risk taking....
...Ms Segal supervised much of CNN’s coverage of the Florida trial of George Zimmerman, a ratings winner for the network, as well as Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration....
...NPS does not yet invest in hedge funds either inside Korea or outside but that may soon change. The following day, NPS held a breakfast to which hedge funds flocked....
...It rebounded all the way from 1,238, its low on the day, and also a new low for the year....
...Andy Zimmerman is global managing director, mobility services for Accenture, the global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company....
...Last week, South Carolina’s attorney-general threatened to sue Craigslist if it did not remove within ten days posts that display pornography and advertise prostitution....
...It is neatly encapsulated in the words of Stephen Zimmerman, his former boss at MAM, who took him on as a graduate trainee in 1988,telling him: “Promise me this, Andreas....
...Ralf Zimmerman, analyst at Oppenheim, said that as the financial climate worsened, there was an increasing likelihood that Ireland’s deposit guarantee would be copied across Europe....
...Wall Street stocks were mixed on Monday after a range bound day of trading, as oil prices retreated, helping to overturn early losses in consumer-facing stocks, while a rally in financials offset new data...
...Banks process the largest cheques first each day, so account holders may be hit with more insufficient-funds penalties....
...Walter Zimmerman, technical analyst at United Energy, said charts pointed to a bearish downwards trend and most attempts at a rally had ended in “abject failure”....
...Walter Zimmerman, technical analyst at United Energy, said further losses were likely....
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