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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....
...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....
...UK ministers and media branded Monday “V-Day” as the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were administered....
...Interim data have shown that its vaccine has an efficacy rate up there with the shots developed by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna, based on revolutionary messengerRNA technology....
...While Pfizer was projected to finance its takeover primarily with stock and cash, Halliburton last year raised $7.5bn for its acquisition of Baker Hughes....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
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...Speaking of taxpayers, an explicit motive for Pfizer’s bid is its intention to move to the UK for tax purposes....
...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)....
...(Financial Times) Big shareholders in AstraZeneca have told the UK drugmaker they want the board to reopen takeover talks with Pfizer as early as August, after accepting that a deal is unlikely to be agreed...
...And Mr Jackson’s activist group, Rainbow Push Coalition, has already urged state pension funds to boycott companies that have large overseas cash piles (such as General Electric, Google or Pfizer)....
...With large pharmaceutical groups such as Pfizer of the US in Sandwich, Kent, closing big facilities and largely handing research over to smaller start-ups, Mr Lewis said there was potential for the Heath...
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
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...Mr Newton read English at Cambridge and worked for publishers Macmillan and Sidgwick & Jackson before founding Bloomsbury in 1986....
...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....
...Rival Jackson Hewitt Tax Service was also down 3.7 per cent to $2.36....
...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....
...“Hope is a form of substance,” said the Rev Jesse Jackson, the veteran rights campaigner, at an inauguration party on Monday. “Competence is coming with this....
...Alongside Woods, the magazine features celebrity golfers such as Samuel L Jackson, Justin Timberlake and the actor Dougray Scott, Dunhill’s new face of golf....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
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