With a downcast earnings season passing the halfway mark, results from financial-technology and vaccine makers will arrive this week amid questions about consumer spending and demand for COVID-19 drugs. As Read more
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‘The calm before the storm’: Employer healthcare premiums hold steady despite inflation, but experts warn that may not last
Employers are paying roughly the same amount for health insurance this year compared to the year before. But that could change. Annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance are averaging Read more
Sanofi posts higher sales but $2.07 billion net profit misses forecasts
Sanofi SA on Friday posted higher sales for the third quarter, though net profit declined slightly, and raised its business earnings-per-share guidance for 2022, citing a good performance in vaccines Read more
20-year-old investor who made $110 million on a meme stock is pushing for change at a psychedelics company
The 20-year-old investor who found fame this year when he made $110 million trading shares of troubled retailer Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -1.13%, has turned activist shareholder and Read more
With highly concentrated cannabinoids, BioHarvest takes aim at medical and dietary-supplement markets
Canadian and Israeli microcap biotech company BioHarvest Sciences Inc. has launched the first cannabis and hemp compositions produced through its proprietary bioreactor process. BioHarvest CNVCF, -3.48% BHSC, -3.17% uses its Read more
AstraZeneca says advanced trial of breast-cancer drug Capivasertib meets primary endpoints
AstraZeneca PLC said Wednesday that Capivasertib plus Faslodex significantly improved progression-free survival when compared with Faslodex combined with a placebo in a Phase 3 trial in advanced hormone receptor-positive breast Read more
Fetterman suggests Oz runs for Senate in Vermont instead of Pennsylvania because all he ‘can do is talk about Bernie Sanders’
““Why don’t you pretend that you you live in Vermont instead of Pennsylvania and run against Bernie Sanders, because all you can do is talk about Bernie Sanders?”” — Pennsylvania Read more
China tops U.S. for first time in this ranking of world’s ‘best’ universities
China has surpassed the U.S. on a major ranking of the world’s best universities. Among the 2,000 schools from more than 90 countries ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Read more
3M says inflation has seen a ‘little moderation,’ while smartphone demand has been soft
3M Co. has its hands in so many markets, including consumer products, electronics, health care, safety and transportation, that when it talks about the economy and demand trends, investors should Read more
Biogen and Eisai make plans to take another Alzheimer’s drug to the FDA
Biogen Inc. BIIB, -1.93% and Eisai Co. Ltd. 4523, +3.57% are getting closer to a possible approval of their new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, with plans to submit the drug Read more