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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....
...(NYT, New Statesman) Dementia drug blow The difficulty of finding drugs to treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases was underlined by Pfizer's withdrawal from research....
...Japan Tobacco, long considered its most likely acquirer, has expressed reservations about entering the US market, which Imperial flagged as one of its key growth areas after buying Reynolds American’s divested...
...Other deals that are expected to generate large fees for the bank but are still waiting for regulators’ approval include AT&T’s $67.1bn acquisition of DirecTV and Reynolds American’s $27.4bn acquisition...
...Mr Jacobs refrained from giving an outlook for 2015 but Lazard has had a strong start to the new year advising on three mega deals, including Pfizer’s $17bn acquisition of Hospira, the US pharmaceutical...
...Pfizer’s abortive $116bn bid for UK drugmaker AstraZeneca – the largest deal attempted in the year to date – was an attempt at such a deal....
...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)....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...In December, Jeff Kindler, chief executive of Pfizer, abruptly resigned....
...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....
...The right has existed in US state common law since a 1918 case called International New Services v. Associated Press....
...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....
...Pfizer of the US, the world’s biggest pharmaceutical group that is buying Wyeth, is run by Jeff Kindler, a lawyer....
...Frank D’Amelio at Pfizer formerly worked at Alcatel-Lucent, while AstraZeneca hired Simon Lowth from Scottish Power....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...RJ Reynolds (now part of Reynolds American) developed two – Premier in 1988 and the “smokeless” Eclipse in 1996. But neither was a hit....
...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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