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...High-grade pharma group Bristol Myers Squibb sold $13bn of debt on Wednesday....
...The chances of (c) are impossible to estimate, even granting that Putin looks weaker now....
...Yet, two years later, GSK is once again training its sights on the “big C”....
...The first of these so-called immunotherapies was launched by Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb last year and analysts expect them to generate $35bn of annual sales within a decade....
...The New York Stock Exchange Arca biotech index has risen by over 200 per cent since the start of 2011 to 4,131 points, easily outpacing the S&P 500, which has grown 64 per cent....
...Most investors appear to share his optimism: the S&P pharmaceuticals index is up 29 per cent in the past year. So why are some people unconvinced?...
...(Financial Times) Apple has appointed Sue Wagner, a co-founder of BlackRock, to its board, adding greater M&A experience and its second female director, as part of a push for greater diversity by chief...
...Over the past 12 months these have returned 16 per cent to shareholders, on average, compared with the S&P 500’s 5 per cent....
...Shares in Inhibitex climbed 141.1 per cent to $23.70 after Bristol-Myers Squibb agreed to buy the pharmaceutical group for its hepatitis C medicines....
...The stories that former Moody’s and S&P employees told at that hearing – of the agencies trying to please investment banks that were paying big fees to get high ratings – cast doubt on a central plank of...
...Bernstein saw Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Aventis among potential buyers of the franchise....
...But by the close that upbeat tone had abated, with the S&P 500 down 1.6 per cent at 1,188.22....
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...Indeed, Mr Myers says the trip will serve as a valuable propaganda tool for Mr Kim’s regime....
...The changes will demand a “new mindset” from companies and their lawyers, according to Amy Longo of the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, who spoke at ane-discovery conference in Washington DC last month....
...Bach managed to father 20 children (confusingly most of them became composers with names such as J.C. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach and J.C.F. Bach) and fought with his bosses for a pay rise....
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