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...News this week that Berkshire Hathaway would increase investments in Japanese stocks has managed to lift the entire market....
...For all the progress towards disclosure, however, companies as prominent as Berkshire Hathaway and Netflix still rank at the bottom of the non-partisan CPA-Wharton Zicklin index....
...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....
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...It increased its stakes in AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, but sold out of Pfizer....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway placed a $5.7bn bet on four US pharmaceutical stocks in the third quarter, as the billionaire investor dumped holdings in several of the largest US banks....
...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....
...(FT) Apollo-Athene: the new Berkshire Hathaway?...
...That time Pfizer failed to clinch a deal for AstraZeneca If Ian Read had his way, AstraZeneca would be a unit of US pharma group Pfizer right now....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...Pfizer shows how the adjustments made so far reflect the balance of different factors....
...Shares of large drugmakers also tumbled, as investors fretted they would struggle to maintain premium prices, with Pfizer, AbbVie and Merck losing between 1.6 per cent and 5.3 per cent....
...Besides Mr Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway group, Mr Ashford’s big backers this year include multinationals such as Deere & Co and Honeywell as well as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and other...
...Elsewhere, Apple shares advanced 3.7 per cent to $93.88 after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a $1bn plus stake in the iPhone maker....
...Time Warner, Priceline, Halliburton, Pfizer, Whole Foods and Motorola are among the companies announcing results....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...Aerospace engineering stocks were also active on the $32.5bn acquisition of Precision Castparts by Berkshire Hathaway....
...Lazard, which advised Heinz owners 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway in their acquisition of Kraft, is on track to beat last year’s record performance when its M&A advisory revenues topped $1bn for the first...
...Berkshire Hathaway’s taxes, at least, will be higher rather than lower as a result of the inversion....
...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)....
...Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRKB -0.92% also trimmed its holdings in General Motors Co. in the first quarter, securities filings show....
...The average annualised return for shareholders during the periods of Icahn board members was 28 per cent, double the average returns from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway over the same periods, and more...
...Mr Buffett invests via his ownership of insurance company Berkshire Hathaway. Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM....
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