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Here is why Biohaven Pharmaceuticals soared 70%
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals Holding Company Ltd. (NYSE: BHVN) was up 70% after the company and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) entered a definitive agreement under which Pfizer would acquire the NURTEC ODT maker...
GoodRx stock tanks after company says it’s unlikely to achieve 2022 outlook amid issue with grocery chain
Shares of GoodRx Holdings Inc. sank in after-hours trading Monday after the company, which offers tools that help consumers compare drug prices, exceeded expectations with its March-quarter results bu...
Novavax posts first quarterly profit, but misses expectations
Shares of Novavax Inc. dropped more than 6% in the extended session Monday after the biotech company reported its first profitable quarter, but not by as much as Wall Street expected, and its sales we...
BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine
Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.
Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...
Illumina Stock Plunges Despite Strong Results, Gene-Sequencing Sales
Text size Illumina turned in stronger financial results than expected. Dreamstime The gene-sequencing supplier Illumina delivered on its March quarter financial forecasts, as global demand for genetic...
Teva CEO Sees a Final Opioid Settlement Coming This Year
Text size Teva CEO Kåre Schultz has been predicting a national opioid settlement for years. Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg Teva Pharmaceutical Industries CEO Kåre Schultz has, for years, been predictin...
Symptoms of mysterious liver disease affecting children, Covid links
Health experts are investigating the likely cause of a new children’s liver disease, which was first reported in the U.K. in January 2022, and whether it bears any connection to the coronavirus....
U.S. universities reinstate mask mandates
Masked to protect against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), senior Lauren Pyjar takes advantage of the warm sunshine to study outdoors at Georgetown University in Washington, March 9, 2021. Kevin La...
As Putin eyes a date to declare victory, here’s a Ukraine scenario that could slam stocks by another 10%
Stocks are set to get a major bump on Thursday, thanks to blowout results from Tesla, which go some way in easing the sting over Netflix disappointment. With earnings sharply in focus for now, market ...
Biden announces massive new aid package for Ukraine
[The stream is slated to start at 9:45 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Joe Biden will announce a new military aid package to Ukraine, which i...
Woman caught Covid twice in 20 days marking a new record
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a citizen for nucleic acid test at a testing site in Binhai New Area in north China’s Tianjin, Jan. 9, 2022. Zhao Zishuo | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Im...
The news coming from this giant volcano is even gloomier than the new forecasts from the IMF and World Bank
Investors love looking at esoteric indicators for clues on how the economy is performing, and therefore how stocks, bonds and other assets will trade. How about looking at carbon dioxide emissions? Th...
Here are 30 stocks that Goldman Sachs likes when the economy stutters and markets gyrate
Wall Street is finding some traction for Tuesday, as investors wade through big earnings and ample, gloomy distractions. Fighting has ramped up again in Ukraine as the battle begins for the country’s ...
Johnson & Johnson Suspends Vaccine Sales Guide, Boosts Dividend
Updated at 12:46 pm EST Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) – Get Johnson & Johnson Report posted stronger-than-expected first quarter earnings Tuesday but lowered its full-year profit forecast, an...
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals’ 50-For-1 Stock Split Will Go Into Effect Tomorrow
Reuters U.S. charges ex-Brazilian CFO with planting false Berkshire Hathaway story NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. authorities on Monday charged a former senior executive at IRB Brasil Resseguros SA with fra...
India, China Pharmaceutical Companies Face Increasing Scrutiny In Washington
An advocacy group for local generic drug manufacturers, called the Americans for Safe Drugs, says … [+] most people want their essential medicines made here. And foreign labs giving FDA warnings...
Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...
These stocks soared during the pandemic, and then crashed. Ten are now expected to double in price.
A screen of stocks that popped during the coronavirus pandemic highlights dozens that have crashed. But some are considered worthy of purchase by a majority of analysts. You might want to keep an eye ...