2021 has been momentous for deals. From AT&T’s media businesses merger with Discovery, Kansas City Southern railroad’s takeover and Square acquiring BNPL company Afterpay, global deals are on a roll. Transactions are expected to top $5 trillion this year. All this, while the pandemic is rising again, the global economy is still flaky, and developed…
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After having beaten established vaccine makers to produce the first Covid-19 shots, Moderna and BioNTech, with its partner Pfizer, are racing to dethrone them in another big market: flu. They are betting that the new messenger RNA technology used in their Covid vaccines at large-scale for the first time, will eventually allow flu jabs to…
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Exhaustion and burnout. Patients at risk in understaffed hospitals. These and similar stories of woe were told by many of the roughly 6,000 nurses, doctors, and ambulance drivers who protested outside the health ministry in Paris this month. Their diagnosis was brutal. The French healthcare system has suffered chronic under-investment and mismanagement for decades, they…
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Growing tensions between Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Apple lie behind the death of the Internet Association (IA), the nine-year-old lobby group that was Big Tech’s voice in Washington, according to insiders and industry observers. The Washington-based group, which dubbed itself the “unified” voice of the internet industry, will shut at the end of the…
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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/693b3337-ce80-4150-866a-01e1c3730fad US financial conditions are near the most accommodative on record even as the Federal Reserve has begun stepping up its exit from coronavirus crisis-era stimulus measures, and soaring US stock markets are masking a strong tide that is pulling down the share prices of hundreds of…
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Two new British studies provide some early hints that the omicron variant of the coronavirus may be milder than the delta version. Scientists stress that even if the findings of these early studies hold up, any reductions in severity need to be weighed against the fact omicron spreads much faster than delta and is more…
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It was the year that London’s equity markets got what they wanted. Large tech listings from founder-led businesses in growth sectors. It was just a pity that two of them were Alphawave IP and Deliveroo. The terrible trading of two of London’s largest listings taints perceptions of the market’s prospects. It would be easy to…
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The Supreme Court says it will hold a special session in just over two weeks to weigh challenges to two Biden administration policies covering vaccine requirements for millions of workers, policies that affect large employers and health care workers. The high court’s announcement Wednesday that it will hear arguments in the cases Jan. 7 comes…
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The Novavax Covid-19 vaccine appears to generate an effective immune response against the Omicron variant, according to preliminary data released by the drugmaker on Wednesday. The vaccine, approved by the World Health Organization and in the EU, the Philippines and Indonesia, is stored at conventional fridge temperature. It could prove significantly helpful for the Covax…
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