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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....
...(FT, WSJ) Coronavirus digest Mitch McConnell, Republican leader in the US Senate, has backed a new round of stimulus cheques....
...But such a penalty could encourage the break-up of US companies as they seek alternative ways to benefit from lower tax jurisdictions, said Rohit Kumar of PwC, a former aide to Mitch McConnell, the Republican...
...“We don’t lack ideas on how to reform the code,” says Rohit Kumar of PwC, a former aide to Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader....
...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)....
...To be fair to McCain, he has actually been very principled in his opposition to torture – so perhaps the debate is better phrased as libertarians v neocons; or isolationists v interventionists....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...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....
...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....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...He was born in 1954, the year, as he points out, of the famous Brown v Board of Education case which paved the way for US desegregation....
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