Worldwide cancer drug sales are already way ahead of those of other drugs and the revenue generated by them is expected to grow even larger by 2026. This is according to a report recently released by consultancy Evaluate, which analyses trends in the p…
Nearly 17 years ago, on February 4, 2004, then-19-year old Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some of his classmates, launched a little website called Thefacebook.”Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks…
Ryanair is far from alone in having experienced a terrible 2020 in the aviation sector, but the latest quarterly figures released this week do paint a particularly bleak picture. The losses, €306 million in the three months ending 31 December, led the …
A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that depending on where you live, the road to national inoculation protection against COVID-19 might still be a long one. The report shows that in many locations it will take years before a majority…
Last week, there was more good news on the Covid-19 vaccine front with U.S firms Johnson & Johnson and Novavax releasing efficacy data from late stage trials. Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ-78436735 candidate is being developed by its subsidiary Janssen Pharm…
Israel has had the fastest Covid-19 vaccine rollout of any country thanks to early moves to secure significant quantities of doses from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. It has also been aided due to high levels of enthusiasm among its population, efficient…
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund is the largest of any sovereign wealth fund in the world. According to data from the SWF Institute, the fund contained more than $1.1 trillion as of January 2021. Most of the assets are tied up in stocks, bonds and…
The coronavirus crisis has had a significant impact on international car markets in the past year. The number of newly registered passenger cars in the 27 EU member states fell by around 24 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year. This is accordi…
This week, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing the Department of Justice to not renew contracts with privately operated prisons – a process that had been started once before during the Obama administration but was reversed un…
On Wednesday Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that the U.S. economy is still “a long way from a full recovery,” as the Federal Open Market Committee pledged to use “its full range of tools to support the U.S. economy in this challenging time”…
