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...There are several US states with populations at least the size of Austria’s with even lower rates of vaccination (Texas, Michigan, Georgia and Ohio)....
...At Harvard, thousands more will do the same, as will students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan....
...But the vast majority of deals pending in mid-March have either closed or are on track to close soon at their original prices....
...North Carolina-based Duke said Zelfrs may become commercially viable by the mid-2030s. They are not commercial now....
...“What is a more American dream than some South African immigrant coming here and picking up rockets mid-career and getting humans back into space for America?”...
...Hitachi sold its chemicals and diagnostic imaging businesses — once considered “core” to the giant conglomerate — to two rival domestic groups....
...GE will retain its other main life sciences business, pharmaceutical diagnostics, which it sees as a better fit with its medical equipment such as scanners....
...Another from the University of Michigan said there had been a gradual decline in the proportion of misinformation on Facebook since mid-2017....
...Kimberly-Clark said it would raise the price of brands such as Kleenex and Huggies by mid- to high-single digits early next year, to offset higher commodity costs....
...In mid-January, Takata agreed to plead guilty and pay a $1bn criminal penalty in the US for fraud with three of its executives indicted for their roles in the scandal....
...“I wake up in New Delhi, Moscow, London or wherever and think, ‘Not bad for a mid-western boy’,” he says, referring to his childhood in Ada, Michigan, where the company is headquartered....
...With diagnostic imaging products gone, the company will retain few profitable businesses....
...The Michigan-based company saw net profits up more than a third to 3.1bn, powered by cheap gasoline prices in the US that have fuelled sales for larger vehicles....
...And, as health systems try to become more efficient in the face of rising demand from ageing populations, it forecasts a mid to high single-digit percentage growth rate....
...Since mid-2013, Nissan, Honda and Mazda have each opened new plants in Mexico....
...They have gained almost 20 per cent since mid-October, but are still about 7 per cent off the record peak of $108 reached in September....
...An activist investor backed by Grosvenor Capital Management, the hedge fund, has taken a 5.1 per cent stake in Volcano Corp, the maker of ultrasound scanners, in a bid to push the company into a $200m share...
...Having initially recovered well from the 2008 collapse, they had gone nowhere over the past two years until a re-rating this summer pushed them back to mid-2011 levels....
...Readings of 90 to 100 are common in a strong economy; the index averaged in the mid-60s during the recession....
...Ford estimated industry sales in June were in the mid-14m range and expected full-year sales to reach 14.5m to 15m....
...Bosch’s aftermarket division will absorb SPX’s Service Solutions business, which is based in Michigan, USA, and employs about 2,700 workers, mainly in the US, Germany, France and China....
...(Financial Times) The ISM survey on the US industrial sector reported a large decline in activity from 53.5 in May to 49.7 in June – its lowest level since the recession ended in mid-2009, “In a shock to...
...Roche has offered $44.50 a share in cash for Illumina, about a 64 per cent premium to the company’s share price in mid-December....
...Ford said the move is part of the company’s “largest expansion in 50 years”, aimed at boosting global sales by 50 per cent from 2010 to about 8m vehicles a year by mid-decade....
...The average national home price in November was at mid-2003 levels, and prices are now down nearly 33 per cent from their peak in July 2006....
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