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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....
...nanoparticles have some adjuvant activity, providing a little inflammation with the vaccination that helps the immune system to make antibodies and T-cells that target the Sars-Cov-2 virus,” said Brian Ferguson...
...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....
...His calls for baristas to strike up conversations about race with customers following riots after the shooting of a black youth in Ferguson Missouri were widely panned....
...Producer: So I’ve optioned a real-life David v Goliath struggle from London, England, where an Average Joe stock analyst is battling Citi over the fate of mines and trading empire Glencore....
...In November, Mr Ackman revealed Pershing Square had taken an 8.5 per cent stake in Zoetis while Sachem Head, run by former Ackman employee Scott Ferguson, had acquired 1.6 per cent....
...Another activist hedge fund, Sachem Head Capital Management, run by former Ackman employee Scott Ferguson, has acquired a further 1.6 per cent....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...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....
...Recent spats include Niall Ferguson v Martin Wolf via Paul Krugman and the legendary dispute between Joseph Stiglitz and Kenneth Rogoff....
...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 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....
...In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson writes that by 1845, another duke – of Buckingham – owned a 67,000-acre empire in England, Ireland and Jamaica, built up over 125 years....
...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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