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...Analysts said some banks could lift their guidance when they report first-quarter results beginning this week....
...Mr Smith’s compensation barely made it past the Floridian cancer drugs testing company’s shareholders, with 52.8 per cent of votes in favour and 2.8 per cent abstaining. What’s happened since?...
...Victoria first acquired underlay manufacturer Ezi Floor in 2016, with Saqib Karim (he prefers to go by his middle name) staying on as its manager....
...In 2014, Smith personally handed out $1,500 in cash to each employee at a company-wide party where rapper Lil Wayne performed....
...Reese Witherspoon sold her company Hello Sunshine to Blackstone for $900mn in 2021, for example, and Blackstone-backed Candle Media took a $60mn stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc...
...And then we get another company, you know, making billions off selling a weight-loss drug. Lilah Raptopoulos Right....
...Porn was one of the first areas where card companies built an enforcement system to manage risky online business....
...’s Alzheimer’s drug....
...It’s all very colourful though. 5) Fern Labs Inc ($1mn for 5 per cent stake) There’s a company called Fern Labs Inc based at 280 Smith St, Farmingdale, NY 11735, United States, roughly in the middle of...
...Its share price has languished since chief executive Alan Jope took over in 2019, and top-10 investor Terry Smith this week attacked the company as “labouring under the weight of a management which is obsessed...
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine have demanded an apology from Europe’s drug regulator for comments made by the head of the agency likening having the jab to “Russian roulette”....
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...The company added that even high-income countries were getting a price that was “significantly discounted from normal benchmarks” during the pandemic....
...In (barely) the first quarter of this year, blank-cheque companies have already beaten their 2020 fundraising record, DD’s Ortenca Aliaj and the FT’s Aziza Kasumov report, raking in $79.4bn globally compared...
...US approval could be granted shortly after a Food and Drug Administration advisory meeting on December 10....
...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....
...Strigini is a former president of Novartis Oncology and has also worked at several other drug companies....
...From the late 1980s, when the first drugs came out to combat HIV, the virus that causes Aids, it took a decade of campaigning and legal battles to make them widely available — and affordable — in Africa,...
...But “a fight about equitable distribution of the first vaccines may lie ahead”, he cautioned. “How companies price their vaccines and drugs will be closely scrutinised.”...
...(FT) Coronavirus lessons from Asia Inc With Asia weeks ahead in the coronavirus pandemic, local companies can offer some hope to the rest of the world that adaptation and endurance are achievable — with...
...And that, in short, is the story of the big US banks’ first-quarter results, which came in last week....
...The first humans will have Crispr deployed like a drug inside their bodies this year, as companies embark on a new stage of the gene-editing revolution that could lead to many more diseases being treated...
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