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...At the other end of the spectrum, Bayer has so far paid $20bn for lawsuits related to its acquisition of Monsanto and the allegedly carcinogenic properties of its glyphosate herbicide....
...Lex has been following the travails of Bayer and the fallout from its disastrous acquisition of Monsanto in 2016....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...The party will also pledge to clamp down on water companies polluting the sea, rivers and lakes by expanding the powers of industry regulator Ofwat....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...That includes splitting off the litigation liabilities into a separate company. Johnson & Johnson used this so-called “Texas two-step” to ringfence cancer litigation linked to its baby powder product....
...Bayer’s share price has never recovered from its Monsanto acquisition, which at the time was the largest all-cash deal ever attempted and the biggest overseas acquisition of a US company....
...Zahawi, who was promoted to education secretary in an autumn reshuffle, is thought likely to run for the Tory leadership if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is forced out by MPs over the “partygate” scandal....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...David Cameron, the former prime minister who earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to the controversial financing firm, told Zahawi via text in 2020 that he had been “v helpful” with Greensill...
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...Exchange traded funds are going big on the metaverse, writes Steve Johnson....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Well, one of the hot topics in the US right now is the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the abortion ruling that had held for about 50 years....
...Gemcorp Capital, an emerging markets-focused investment firm based in Mayfair, went on to pursue deals involving Russian state-owned companies, including a failed plan to broker the sale of Sputnik V Covid...
...As chancellor under Boris Johnson, Sunak voiced support for the fintech sector — notably crypto....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...The news from Johnson Matthey has been transformational, though not in a good way....
...She got two shots of Sputnik V in Moscow before coming back. Because the Russian vaccine is not recognised by the European Medicines Agency, she says she is “dismayed” by the government’s move....
...South Africa, the country that has been worst hit by the pandemic on the continent, has used the two-dose Pfizer and one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines as the workhorses of a mass rollout since earlier...
...Perhaps insurance companies would also buy them as a hedge. Annuities from insurers are considered poor value for money now because rates are so low....
...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....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
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