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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....
...Merryn Somerset Webb comments that as a fightback against Wall Street, the movement is hopeless: “The money that banks and fund managers make comes from trading commission and fees — not from their investment...
...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....
...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)....
...Iran ready to cut Europe’s oil at once - Facebook to file IPO listing details next week - RBS Chairman Sir Philip Hampton turned down £1.4m bonus before Stephen Hester was awarded £1m - Pfizer...
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Sue Webb, Novartis general manager for the UK, attempted to play down any suggestion the decision was linked to any declining attractiveness of the country for innovation....
...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....
...At a “youth summit” in Birmingham, the prime minister said 150 employers including Microsoft, Bovis Lend Lease, Pfizer and Phones4U were supporting the government’s Backing Young Britain campaign....
...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....
...OFT chairman Philip Collins studied law as an undergraduate alongside Robert Webb QC, now general counsel at BA....
...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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