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...Aston Martin: Shares gained more than 10 per cent after executive chair Lawrence Stroll’s Yew Tree Consortium raised its stake in the company to 26.2 per cent....
...S4 Capital: Shares in Martin Sorrell’s advertising group lost more than 20 per cent after it warned of declining sales....
...Other major companies releasing results include French consultancy Capgemini, Anglo-Swedish drug giant AstraZeneca, UK luxury car maker Aston Martin Lagonda, French telecoms operator Bouygues and Italian...
...Last month S4, owned by former WPP chief executive and founder Sir Martin Sorrell, warned its profits would be lower than expected this year as clients tightened marketing budgets....
...Last month, US-based Interpublic halved its growth forecast, Omnicom fell short of second-quarter analyst expectations and S4 Capital, owned by former WPP executive Martin Sorrell, issued a profit warning...
...Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said UK authorities had convinced themselves that “Covid in children is little to worry about and...
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Patchy provision heightens risk of new variants emerging where fewer people have been inoculated
...Closing the vaccination gap Martin Friede, the co-ordinator of the WHO’s initiative for vaccine research, says the new scheme is drawing on experience from a previous hub, set up to spark production of...
...Additional reporting by Martin Stabe in London...
...The dexamethasone trial has been hailed as a significant breakthrough in the fight against Covid-19, with Martin Landray, an Oxford professor and deputy chief investigator of the so-called Recovery trial...
...Martin Young, an analyst at Investec, said in a note this week that he expected “there will be further [market] consolidation over the upcoming months, through supplier failures and/or distressed sales as...
...Donato Paolo Mancini, writing on EU vaccines, is not the only FT journalist hailing from il bel paese. James Politi in Washington was born in Monza....
...Martin Marshall, who heads the Royal College of GPs, the professional body, said GPs and their teams were already “overcoming huge logistical challenges” to deliver the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine....
...Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie Martin, explains why investors are reboarding airline stocks....
...Martin Marshall, head of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: “Right now, the capacity of the service to deliver [vaccinations] is pretty well aligned to the availability of the vaccine . ....
...Martin Landray, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford and lead researcher on the Recovery trial, explained that what appeared to make most Covid-19 patients severely ill and...
...“The deadline is fast approaching and we’re quite concerned that [Covax] might not plug the funding gap,” said Manuel Martin, a policy adviser at Médecins Sans Frontières....
...Additional reporting by Donato Paolo Mancini in Rome, Richard Milne in Oslo, Michael Peel in Brussels, Martin Arnold in Frankfurt and Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg...
...Sir Martin Moore-Bick, chair of the inquiry, said: “It’s not going to be possible for [Mr Sounes] to continue giving evidence today or even tomorrow.”...
...The request, if granted, would give the interested witnesses “complete freedom to tell the truth without any concern for the future”, Sir Martin said....
...On Thursday, the chair of the inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, and panel member Thouria Istephan, said: “We have come to the conclusion that it will not be possible for the inquiry properly to fulfil its terms...
...Subscribers can use myFT to follow the latest ‘coronavirus’ coverage Reporting by Sarah Neville, Clive Cookson, Donato Paolo Mancini, Gill Plimmer and Tom Hancock...
...Sir Martin said the comment displayed “remarkable insensitivity”....
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