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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....
...Dr VK Paul, head of India’s vaccine strategy task force, said New Delhi hoped drugmakers such as Pfizer and Moderna would bring their vaccines to India “as soon as possible”....
...Additional reporting by Stephanie Findlay in New Delhi and Hannah Kuchler in London...
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...Airfinity estimates that 8m doses of Sputnik V had been delivered so far. US drugmaker Pfizer said this month it had produced 65m doses....
...Now, with the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine temporarily suspended, the government has switched its attention to J&J and Pfizer....
...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....
...Ashish Gupta, head of Indian equity research at Credit Suisse, said India’s rising caseload ruled out a V-shaped rebound....
...She first picked up the violin aged four, when her older sister, Stephanie — now violinist for the pop group Clean Bandit — decided she wanted to learn....
...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)....
...To be fair to McCain, he has actually been very principled in his opposition to torture – so perhaps the debate is better phrased as libertarians v neocons; or isolationists v interventionists....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...While some companies, led by Cisco, Apple and Pfizer, are pushing for a temporary “repatriation holiday” that would allow the companies to bring back hundreds of billions of dollars in profits earned oversees...
...Anne Mathias, tax analyst at WRG, said companies already domiciled in US tax havens, as well as pharmaceutical groups such as Pfizer and technology groups such as Hewlett- Packard, which have been able to...
...The departure of Jeffrey Kindler from his post as chief executive of Pfizer this month leaves President Barack Obama with one less high-profile ally in “Corporate America”....
...Pfizer in April disclosed that it paid $35m over six months to 4,500 doctors in private practice for education and the development and marketing of new drugs – payments that are legal in the US....
...GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly, among others, have disclosed being contacted by the DoJ and Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the investigation....
...of Pfizer’s products....
...The choice of Mr Castellani for one of the most coveted and highly paid jobs in Washington marks the first big decision by Jeff Kindler, the chairman and chief executive of Pfizer who is serving as the lobby...
...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 public recently had a taste of such disclosures when Pfizer, in connection with a separate legal settlement, said it had paid $35m over six months to doctors and other medical professionals....
...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....
...In FCC v Fox Television Stations, the high court will rule on whether a policy governing the airing of “fleeting expletives” on broadcast television, enacted by the Federal Communications Commission, is...
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