Pfizer Corporation (PFE)

Let’s get ahead of some of the data coming our way this busy week. First off, we have financial markets focused on the central bank activity with the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Bank of Canada (BOC), and the European Central Bank (ECB) all expected to leave rates unchanged in continuation of the...

Despite slim chances that the COVID-19 vaccine will see the light of the public day in October, Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) is getting our hopes up. According to SVB Leerink, a Wall Street firm, even though Moderna Inc (NASDAQ: MRNA) and Pfizer began their trials on the same day, Pfizer's is built...

Besides saving lives and the global economy, we are expecting three things from the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine: safety, immunogenicity and efficacy. But we never had a 100 percent efficacy when it comes to respiratory viruses, so anything between 50 and 100% will be the best we've got as the WHO...

The race for a novel coronavirus vaccine has lit a fuse under biotech and pharmaceutical companies. 2020 will surely be remembered as the year of COVID-19 and an unprecedented boom for these industries. During good times, pharma stocks are attractive because of their steady cash flow, high-profit...

The merger of Pfizer's Upjohn business with Mylan NV (NASDAQ: MYL), along with the potential of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate that it's developing with BioNTech, makes Pfizer a potential winner during COVID-19. Yet, Sanofi SA (NASDAQ: SNY) is considered by many to be the closest...

Next week several key elections will take center stage against a backdrop of instability. Ukrainians will head to the polls for a presidential election on May 25 after the Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February. However, the recent declaration of autonomy by separatist rebels could disrupt...

AT&T Inc. announced a deal to acquire DirecTV for $49 billion over the weekend, as the firm attempts to adapt to a quickly changing media landscape. Both businesses’ boards approved the agreement on Sunday, creating a company with 26 million pay-TV subscribers. The deal comes shortly after...

Following a referendum on secession over the weekend, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine formally asked to become a part of Russia on Monday. Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where much of the conflict has been centered, made a plea to the Kremlin which was reminiscent of the situation in Crimea...