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...Donald Trump’s allies alleged a grand conspiracy between Democratic elites and Pfizer, which they accused of holding back the news until after the election to damage his prospects of a second term....
...The idea, drafted by Oxfam, was also on the agenda at Pfizer’s annual meeting....
...About 84 per cent of athletes, coaches and team officials are expected to have been vaccinated prior to arrival in Tokyo after the IOC struck deals with pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the Chinese government...
...Following several legal disputes between the main shareholders, Siemens in February cemented control of the business, buying out Iberdrola’s 8.1 per cent stake for €1.1bn to take its own holding to 67 per...
...The company has since sold the Hilton stake and pared its Deutsche Bank holdings....
...“Medivation was not a good deal and it has made people really scared,” says one investor with large holdings of Pfizer and Gilead....
...But part of SoftBank’s equity is a 25 per cent stake in Arm Holdings, the UK chip designer it acquired last year for $32bn....
...Allergan will be renamed Pfizer and the new company will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the PFE ticker....
...The top-five list included the addition of Oracle, which ousted Pfizer after the pharmaceuticals group completed its $17bn takeover of Hospira....
...In the US, Hillary Clinton joined the political backlash against Pfizer’s historic $160bn deal to buy Ireland-based Allergan in an “inversion” that would slash its US tax bill....
...Medical research charities attract support from millions of individual donors, investing £1.3bn a year and funding the salaries of more than 12,000 researchers in universities and institutes....
...In the US, the pricing strategies of the pharmaceutical sector attracted political criticism even as big pharma led a busy year for M&A....
...Covidien of Ireland, which is being bought by Medtronic, shed 4.26 per cent in early New York trading, while AstraZeneca, the UK pharmaceuticals group that was subject to an abortive offer from Pfizer, closed...
...residency in Ireland and the US....
...Although many do not report their offshore cash holdings, it is a safe bet that the current frenzy of M&A in the pharmaceutical sector is being greatly encouraged by the US rules on taxation of repatriated...
...Pfizer raises bid for AstraZeneca to £50 per share. The move steps up pressure on the UK pharmaceuticals group to agree to a deal that would create the world’s biggest drugs company....
...Portugal follows Ireland as the second eurozone country to opt for a clean exit from a punishing rescue programme....
...(Reuters) “Exelon, the largest U.S. nuclear operator, has agreed to buy Pepco Holdings Inc. for more than $5.4 billion in cash, according to people familiar with the transaction.”...
...Earnings American International Group Q1 $1.07 ($1.34) Pfizer Q1 $0.55 ($0.54) Shareholder meeting Sanofi ● Antony Jenkins faces a crucial week....
...Quarterly results from Pfizer , the world’s largest pharmaceutical company by revenues, told of robust global demand in the quarter ended September 30....
...US pharmaceutical major Pfizer is rumoured to be a potential bidder....
...Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical group, on Wednesday agreed to plead guilty to illegally promoting its painkiller Bextra, as part of a record-breaking $2.3bn final settlement reached with federal...
...German pharmaceutical company Bayer rose 1.2 per cent to €53.34 on rumours of takeover interest from US rival Pfizer. Neither group has commented on the reports....
...Shire Pharmaceuticals is not setting up a manufacturing centre in Ireland, but is organising itself as an Irish holding company to reduce its UK tax liabilities....
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