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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....
...But sales of the Ariens Ikon XD, featuring 20-inch tyres, a V-twin Kawasaki engine and ergonomic plush seat, have surged in the US during the pandemic....
...A US circuit court said as much as part of the 1979 case of Zweig v Hearst Corp, which found that a newspaper columnist touting a stock could be sued for securities fraud for failing to disclose he owned...
...One of the main culprits there is the brickmaking industry, with an estimated 7,000 kilns burning wood and coal. About 1,000 are around Dhaka....
...In New York, Ian Woods, the former US head of building products and construction at Jefferies, has been hired as a managing director in the bank’s industrials group....
...“The multiyear deal is a huge vindication for Qualcomm and likely an acknowledgment by Apple that it had run out of options, particularly when it comes to 5G,” said Ben Wood, analyst at CCS Insight....
...It is just past midday and we are the only customers in Saigon Saigon, which has dark wood panelling and slow-turning ceiling fans....
...Merck and Pfizer, which both boast strong pipelines of new drugs and stand to grow with an ageing population, took the top spots on the Dow with gains of 36 per cent and 21 per cent each, respectively....
...François Arrighi arrived to open and manage the property, fresh from the George V in Paris (and, before that, Les Airelles, one of Courchevel’s celebrated palaces)....
...Andrew Wood, analyst at Bernstein, says Reckitt’s decision was a missed opportunity. “An acquisition of Pfizer consumer health was RB’s opportunity to gain global leadership in consumer health....
...Nestlé was mentioned as a possible buyer for German drug company Merck’s consumer healthcare business or US group Pfizer’s consumer unit. But coffee has become the immediate priority....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...A timeline of world trade deals 1 1944 More than 700 delegates from 44 countries gather at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to hash out the terms of a postwar economic order...
...Max Schrems, the Austrian student who leads the privacy campaign “Europe v Facebook”, tweeted triumphantly on Tuesday: “The game is on!”...
...Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...The wood-beam ceiling contrasts with the crisp white walls and freshly cut white lilies....
...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)....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...Mr Lewis vacated his office when Wood Group PSN – a subsidiary of Wood Group that designs, services and decommissions oil rigs and other big energy projects – needed more space....
...As a cider-drinking couch potato who gets breathless on a Boris bike and whose tennis racket is so out of use that the wood has warped, I reckoned myself the ideal test subject....
...Bernstein valued Pfizer’s consumer portfolio at about £9bn....
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