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...The S&P 500 on Monday opened at a new record high in New York. Shares in Pfizer rose 7.6 per cent, while BioNTech’s increased 7.9 per cent....
...In Europe last year, the average leveraged buyout used equity for more than half of the deal’s enterprise value, according to data from S&P Global....
...Absent more information we are probably safe to assume that talks have indeed ceased and Bloomberg’s heavy use of the past tense was a necessary precaution....
...We think Airbus would be best-positioned to benefit from a V-shaped recovery in 2021....
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...While the Recordati family sold a majority of their shares in their pharmaceuticals company to the US private equity group CVC in July....
...This is a significant waste of research, burying information that could help to better direct future work, reduce dangers to patients and boost efficiency....
...GSK, the pharmaceuticals group, and Save the Children, the NGO, are combining efforts to tackle some causes of child mortality....
...Lex says the requirement for approval from the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the US need not be a dealbreaker for China Resources $21.70-a-share bid....
...It’s entirely debatable as a consequence whether the introduction of driverless cars would lead to a net decrease in human employment/resources.*****5 There’s also all the IT and digital personnel which...
...A third defendant in the case, Paul Milsom, a former equities trader at the investment arm of Legal & General, also pleaded guilty in 2013 to charges that he passed Shelley information and received a two-year...
...and processing of information....
...(Bloomberg) GM “must turn over documents related to its subprime auto-lending under a subpoena issued by the U.S....
...Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng, who were detained more than a year ago following work they did for the British pharmaceutical group, face charges of illegally obtaining private information on Chinese...
...Markets: “Asian stocks rose, with a gauge of Chinese shares in Hong Kong heading toward a bull market, while Treasuries and oil slipped as investors await data on U.S. services before the Federal Reserve...
...(Financial Times) China labels iPhone a security threat: China’s influential state broadcaster on Friday called a location-tracking function offered by Apple Inc.’s iPhone a “national security concern,”...
...US index futures showed the S&P 500 holding at its Monday close of 1,801....
...In a securities filing Thursday, Penney said it received a letter of inquiry from the SEC seeking information about the offering, as well as details of the company’s liquidity, cash position and debt and...
...property bubble. http://reut.rs/18k55GC India sets guidelines to meet EU drug import rules The Indian government said on Thursday it had set guidelines for pharmaceutical makers to comply with a European...
...US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will advance another 3 points to 1,566 when trading begins later in the day according to the FT’s Global Markets icebreaker Jamie Chisholm....
...to the United States fromChina next year, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in remarks published on Thursday, in what could be a important test of the nascent comeback in U.S.electronics manufacturing. http...
...., a Russian provider of information-technology services, is considering a spinoff of its software development unit Luxoft via an initial public offering in the U.S....
...a £10bn deal to sell eventually the whole of Alliance Boots, chairman Stefano Pessina has taken a minority stake in a Chinese pharmaceutical wholesaler, the FT reports....
...All the major S&P sectors settled in the red, led by financials dropping 3.5 per cent, with energy off 3.1 per cent and information technology shedding 2.7 per cent and it was stocks that might have been...
...Spam is a small industry; annual revenues are about what Apple makes in a single day. Alas, it is a small industry with a long shadow. Tim Harford is the presenter of Radio 4’s ‘More or Less’....
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