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...Shares in Pfizer added about 1 per cent on Friday, while Seagen was up about 0.9 per cent....
...Additional reporting by Hannah Kuchler in New York, Donato Paolo Mancini and Anna Gross in London and Henry Foy in Moscow...
...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....
...A natural to play Hamlet on stage, he did, in 1979, and among his 1980s movies, he also appeared in three off-Broadway Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
...Sputnik V is Russia’s leading Covid-19 vaccine, and was the first in the world to be approved for public use....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...Dr VK Paul, head of India’s vaccine strategy task force, said New Delhi hoped drugmakers such as Pfizer and Moderna would bring their vaccines to India “as soon as possible”....
...Airfinity estimates that 8m doses of Sputnik V had been delivered so far. US drugmaker Pfizer said this month it had produced 65m doses....
...The vaccine was named Sputnik V in a nod to the Soviet satellite that sparked the cold war-era space race....
...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....
...“It brings home the thin line between life and death, and the link between intense suffering and intense love,” says chief features writer Henry Mance....
...Henry McKinnell, who previously served as chief executive of pharmaceutical company Pfizer and a frequent visitor to India since the 1970s, said the surge in Covid-19 cases meant that reviving Asia’s third-biggest...
...Jeffrey Kindler, former chairman and CEO of Pfizer, has joined Blackstone as a senior adviser. EQT Partners named Olof Svensson as its new head of shareholder relations....
...Henry Sanderson 12....
...A former member of Mr Frank’s team, Henry Gosebruch, joined AbbVie in 2015 and is its head of strategy....
...(FT) Japan Inc goes global for M&A advice Only three domestic brokerages rank among the top-ten deal advisers in Japan during the third quarter. Why is Japan Inc looking for foreign advice?...
...Henry Cavill is suitably Olympian as Superman, and Jesse Eisenberg starts well as an unbearable wunderkind Lex Luthor but fizzles into onomatopoeic gibbering....
...Copper prices fell 1.51 per cent on the London Metal Exchange to a four-week low of $,4,733 a tonne, writes Henry Sanderson, commodities correspondent....
...About 60 big companies, ranging from Pfizer to General Motors, were deemed so “safe” that they held this coveted tag from the credit rating agencies. No longer....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
.... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ben Hall, world news editor, picks: • Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones• Why China’s ‘migrant miracle’ is...
Second in new FT series — What is behind the Mercuria v Citi court case?
...The FT’s Henry Mance meets the twenty-somethings who run the site to understand what made it so popular....
...This article has been amended since first publication to show correct figures for the chart labelled “Traditional v online TV”. Back to the top of the page...
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