CVS Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Signify Health for Around $8 Billion

CVS Health is in advanced talks to acquire the home-healthcare company Signify Health for around $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. CVS appears to have beat out other heavy hitt...

CDC’s Walensky Signs Off On Omicron Booster–Here’s When You Can Get One

Topline Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signed off on Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated Covid-19 booster shots targeting the virulent omicron var...

Greg Simon’s Cancer Rx Includes A Better White House Rallying Call

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke during an event on ending cancer at the White House on Feb. 2, 2022. … [+] Biden revived his moonshot initiative to expedite progress on cancer treatments and prev...

Vaccine Stocks Dip: Moderna Sues Pfizer, BioNTech For Patent Infringement

Moderna (MRNA) said Friday it’s suing Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX) for patent infringement, claiming the duo copied its messenger RNA technology to make Covid vaccine Comirnaty. In response,...

Pfizer ‘surprised’ by Moderna COVID-19 vaccine patent lawsuit

Moderna (MRNA) said Friday it is suing Pfizer and BioNTech (PFE/BNTX), alleging the rival drug makers infringed three patents on the technology it used for its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. In two lawsuits f...

Ups & Downs: Top Pharmaceutical Stocks Post-COVID

Who will be Big Pharma’s winners post-COVID? Getty Images There’s little argument that the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the world. While families and governments continue to grapple with Omicron v...

Buy Haleon Stock. This GSK Spinoff Is a Bargain in Consumer Health.

In January, the United Kingdom pharmaceutical firm GSK turned down Unilever ’s offer of 50 billion pounds sterling, or about $60 billion, to buy its consumer healthcare division, saying the price was ...

Teens’ Protection From Pfizer’s Covid Shot Fades Weeks After Vaccination—But Shot Still Wards Off Serious Illness, Study Finds

Topline The effectiveness of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in teens fades rapidly in the weeks after vaccination, according to research published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open, a finding tha...

3 Drug Companies Fall on Zantac Lawsuit Fears. It Shows the Power of Analysts.

Shares of Sanofi , GSK , and Haleon  fell for the second straight trading session Thursday on surging worries about litigation over Zantac, a heartburn drug that the Food and Drug Administration effec...

Pfizer Stock Slumps On Litigation Linked to Zantac Heartburn Drug

Updated at 12:17 pm EST Pfizer  (PFE) – Get Pfizer Inc. Report shares slumped lower Thursday amid investor concern over potential litigation linked to the popular, but now-discontinued, heartbur...

Pfizer, Moderna Take Different Paths as Vaccine Boom Ends

Pfizer is trying to add $25 billion to its 2030 revenue through acquisitions. Dan Kitwood – WPA Pool/Getty Images Text size Pfizer ’s $5.4 billion deal to acquire the biotech Global Blood Therap...

Pfizer is acquiring Global Blood Therapeutics

Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) has executed a definitive merger agreement with Global Blood Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: GBT), whereby Pfizer will acquire the biopharmaceutical corporation dedicated to the deliv...

Vaccine Targeting Fast-Spreading Omicron Subvariants Could Be Ready For Fall As Pfizer, BioNTech Announce Trials

Topline Pfizer and BioNTech will begin trials of their updated mRNA Covid-19 vaccine designed to protect against the newer BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of the coronavirus latest this month, BioNTech ann...

Pfizer in Advanced Talks to Buy Global Blood Therapeutics for About $5 Billion

Pfizer is in advanced talks to buy Global Blood Therapeutics the maker of a recently approved drug for sickle-cell disease, for about $5 billion, in the latest move by the drug giant to bolster its po...

A Recession Is Coming. These Are the Stocks to Hunker Down In.

Eli Salzmann loves nothing better than finding a company that’s a “dog of a stock with no momentum” but on the verge of better days. At its core, that is what value investing is all about. Over the co...

Moderna CEO: No ‘Crazy’ Deals. We’re Giving Cash to Shareholders.

Text size Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel says his company will keep returning cash to investors until it finds a better way of creating value. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Moderna ’s CEO is feeling no pressure ...

Moderna’s Earnings Are Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Moderna is developing two vaccines for the fall, one for the U.S. and the other for international markets. Sean Gallup/Getty Images As the U.S. prepares for a broad Covid-19 booster campaign...

Pfizer, Cisco, and 5 Other Stocks With the Cash Flow to Raise Their Dividends

A company’s free cash is a lifeline for dividends, buybacks and other uses of capital. If that well runs dry or even slows down, a company can be forced to dial down its spending. For this screen, Bar...

Starbucks, Uber, CVS to Report Earnings Amid Shrinking Economy

July 30, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) CVS Health Starbucks and Uber Technologies are among the companies headlining another busy earnings week as investors look for signs of a recess...

Pfizer Stock Dives As Covid-Driven Beat Doesn’t Translate In Guidance

Pfizer stock tumbled Thursday after delivering a second-quarter earnings beat almost entirely on the back of its Covid vaccine and antiviral pill. X The two products, Comirnaty and Paxlovid, brought i...

Giant Manager Buys Up Apple, Nvidia, Corning, and Pfizer Stock

Text size MEAG bought 66,593 Nvidia shares to double its investment to 130,142 shares at the end of June. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The investment arm of one of the world’s biggest insurers just ma...

Covid Patients Should Take An Antiviral Even If They Don’t Have Severe Symptoms, Study Finds

Topline Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral Paxlovid and Merck’s coronavirus pill molnupiravir appear to guard against hospitalizations and death even when people aren’t experiencing severe symptoms, a ...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

Hate Tesla? Investors Can Short the EV Maker With a New Single-Stock ETF.

Text size There is a single-stock ETF that allows anyone to short Tesla stock now. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Tesla investors have a new way to play the electric vehicle maker in the U.S.—singl...

Pfizer Stock Crashes Into 50-Day Line As CureVac Squares Off With Patent Suit

Pfizer stock crashed into its 50-day line Tuesday after German biotech CureVac (CVAC) sued its Covid vaccine partner, BioNTech, for patent infringement. X CureVac says it filed a lawsuit in the German...

Pfizer Raises Covid-19 Vaccine Price 27%. What It Means for the Stock.

Text size Pfizer said it has signed a deal to supply the U.S. with vaccines in the fall, while Moderna has yet to announce a sale. Jacob King – WPA Pool / Getty Images Pfizer has raised the U.S....

Pfizer Seeks Full FDA Approval For Covid Antiviral Pill Paxlovid

Topline Pfizer on Thursday announced it is seeking full Food and Drug Administration approval for its oral Covid-19 antiviral Paxlovid, an anticipated move that could boost confidence in the drug and ...

Novartis Will Cut 8,000 Jobs Under CEO’s Shake-Up Plan

Text size Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday it will lay off more than 7% of its workforce, just a few months after CEO Vas N...

Roivant, Pfizer unveil Priovant Therapeutics focused on autoimmune disease treatments, Roivant stock surges

Shares of Roivant Sciences Ltd. ROIV, -2.30% shot up 10.0% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the biopharmaceutical company and drug giant Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.56% unveiled Priovant Therapeutics, a bi...

The Russian Default Is Less Worrisome Than It Appears. Keep Watching Oil.

A general view of the Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow. AFP via Getty Images Text size Russia’s first default on its foreign debt in more than 100 years is the lat...

Kroger, S&P Global, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Matson

Kroger’s Board of Directors approved a dividend increase from $0.84 to $1.04 per year. The next quarterly dividend of 26 cents per share will be paid on September 1, 2022, to shareholders of rec...

The Days of Big Pharma Are Over. Big Biotech Is on Its Way.

W hen GlaxoSmithKline spins off its enormous division selling drugstore staples like Advil and Tums next month, it will represent more than just the latest shuffling of assets among corporate giants. ...