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...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...
...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....
...Audio Books From comic, compelling reflections on ADHD and autism to pure escapism in Paris, Alex Clark rounds up the best new audio books — including an epic celebration of Terry Pratchett....
...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....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...He’ll soon have a boss to report to — CME chief Terry Duffy — and the fine wine cellar he has kept at HQ for years will have to move....
...Foxconn’s founder and chief executive, Terry Gou, said the 20m-square-foot “Wisconn Valley” factory would be the “first in a series of facilities”, as it invests in high-speed 5G wireless and higher-definition...
...Terry Haines at Evercore ISI said: “Our initial read is that the Treasury finally is trying to disrupt specific inversion transactions after two rounds of more general rule proposals in which they said they...
...That uncertainty was no accident, according to Terry Haines, an analyst at Evercore ISI....
...Including transactions pulled in the face of White House efforts to clamp down on tax inversions, such as the $160bn Pfizer-Allergan deal that collapsed this week, US companies have abandoned $370bn of large...
...Those benefits will be sized up carefully by companies still considering inversions, such as Pfizer, which was in May rebuffed in a £69.4bn approach for the UK’s AstraZeneca....
...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)....
...Selling Savlon and nicotine patches may look prosaic to a research-driven fundamentalist such as Pascal Soriot, boss of AstraZeneca, which Pfizer has aspired to buy....
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Oliver Brandicourt of the drug group’s primary care unit, Ruth McKernan, head of Pfizer’s Sandwich site, Rod MacKenzie of worldwide research and Pfizer UK managing director Richard Blackburn faced the grilling...
...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....
...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....
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...But of the $77.5bn worth of deals on which it advised, one transaction accounted for $68.1bn – Pfizer’s takeover of Wyeth....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
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