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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....
...dollar against its peers touched a 14-year high on January 3, rising by 6.2 per cent since the election of Donald Trump on expectations the new president will pursue policies to boost growth, which could stoke...
...Cost savings in excess of the $2bn-over-three-years target outlined on Monday could stoke fears of significant job losses, according to analysts....
...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)....
...But Thursday’s announcement – particularly the threat of targeting key Russian economic sectors – could stoke additional worry about relations taking a turn for the worse....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...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....
...Low interest for banks cannot continue indefinitely, as it stokes inflation and discourages saving....
...He no longer owns Idol and five years ago sold his company, 19 Entertainment, to media group CKX Inc....
...map behind them – each one representing a ship’s crew of thousands – it becomes clear that their subtle arguments about Vikings and valour are tragically out of touch, more suited to the world of Henry V...
...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....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...Jonathan Guthrie: The complex series of trade offs (local skills v local property prices, for example) implicit in this question make it difficult to answer....
...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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