The Euro tumbled closer to breaking down below 1.24 levels today afternoon as the Natural Gas Report in the US shored up inventories of 3000 BCF by another 57 BCF of NatGas in US alone. Additions of record level inventories…
Though the Fed would have preferred being proved right ont he continuing recoevery its indicated fears are coming true though no Jobs number is due this Tuesday. The Weekly Goldman ICSC retail indices are on mark to losing the 3%…
Pfizer’s Animal health business has a 19% share of market and is so profitable that industry leader Bayer would have purchased it at a tad lower than $19 bln. However the company Pfizer is een on getting rid off the…
Biotechnology firms locally on hand in the USA worked out quick deals in the drug development firms for leukemia and lymphoma with equity premiums likely still underbidding the valueof niche treatmets yet risky propositions. Amgen paid a 33% premium and…
This next Pharma deal happened in the first week of January 2012 itself as another maker of Hepatitis C drugs in Georgia recommended Bristol Myers’ $26 per share offer to its shareh olders. Shareholders will make a 160% gain over…
Well frankly, after our efforts to read up and check the air pressure on the Big Pharma machines, we find the restructuring effort in each case expensive and not worth the effort for most of the time. Still we have…
J&J has seen better days especially with brand rebuilding taking up the better part of 2010 and Pfizer and Glaxo running away with the honors with a Genzyme bid and the GAVI alliance prizes in $ 40 bln in vaccination…
A primer on Sovereign Wealth Funds and their appetite for International Investment You have already heard this a couple of times in the bull pen before the trading day begins or read it if you have just been following it…
Wall Street vs Main Street Even as Apple, J&J and Goldman Sachs itself came out with sterling earnings after IBM’s poor draw yesterday, Markets were shcked into a stupor by the ticker news that disclosed the SEC vote on charges…
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