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...“I see this as a personal choice and equity question and not a mandate for all,” said Michael Nelson, professor of medicine at the University of Virginia....
...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....
...Rollout of third Pfizer doses and approval for J&J booster shots are expected early 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....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...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....
...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Malone and Maffei rubbed elbows with Haim Saban and Jonathan Nelson of Providence Equity Partners — both backers of Univision — in Sun Valley earlier this month....
...Among the largest of these were the blockbuster tie-ups between drugmakers Pfizer and Allergan, brewers AB InBev and SABMiller and oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and BG Group....
...In the army, we call it collateral damage,” says the former soldier, whose office is decorated with election campaign posters and prints of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela....
...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)....
...His solution was to pool assets with Pfizer of the US, which also had a lacklustre HIV portfolio. This was the genesis of ViiV Healthcare, now 80 per cent owned by GSK....
...Three Icahn representatives – Jim Nelson, SungHwan Cho and Mr Icahn’s son Brett – are stepping down from the board after three and a half years....
...(Financial Times) Nelson Peltz to take Pepsi break-up case to shareholders: Nelson Peltz will take his campaign to split PepsiCo directly to fellow investors, less than a week after the US drinks and snacks...
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...The company also benefited from splits elsewhere, launching its $19bn hostile bid for Cadbury three years after Nelson Peltz, the activist investor, successfully lobbied for the confectioner to shed its...
...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....
...For the quarter ending in September, WPP’s revenues rose 16.7 per cent to £2bn, boosted by the acquisition of Taylor Nelson Sofres last year and the weakness of sterling....
...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....
...In December 2002, they made a bolder move, spending $4.2bn to buy a gum company called Adams that had been put up for sale by the US drugs company Pfizer....
...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....
...Had there been a Rockefeller v Kennedy contest in 1964, Kissinger says, “I would of course have supported Rockefeller”, but, surprisingly, he makes it surprisingly clear that a Kennedy victory would not...
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