Tag: COVID-19 vaccine

November 23, 2021

Pascal Soriot said this was because it still had many doses of the vaccine to supply that it had promised to do so at cost. AZ announced earlier this month that it would be seeking to achieve a modest profit […]

February 18, 2021

A vaccine-fueled economic recovery and investors’ surging appetite for risk mean that the European equity rally can keep going in 2021, according to strategists. After strong gains since the start of the year, the bull case for Europe has now […]

January 14, 2021

European markets closed higher on Thursday as investors looked ahead to an announcement from U.S. President-elect Joe Biden about additional fiscal stimulus, and reacted positively to encouraging updates on the coronavirus vaccine front. According to reports Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot […]

December 9, 2020

The upside potential in Zoom Video is likely limited going forward as mass vaccinations for the COVID-19 virus could put a dent in the firm’s business, according to a Wednesday note from JPMorgan. The bank downgraded Zoom Video to Neutral […]

November 30, 2020

Stan Novak, of Valencia, California, has been hunkering down this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, spending little beyond the bare essentials. But after a flurry of positive news reports this month about COVID-19 vaccines, Novak ventured out to department stores […]

November 17, 2020

Good news on the vaccine front has had an immediate and tantalizing effect on the travel sector, suggesting many passengers are raring to get going again. On Tuesday, the U.K.-based low-cost airline EasyJet issued results that were mostly gloomy—it posted […]

November 10, 2020

Global stocks and U.S. futures rose for second day Tuesday on hopes for progress toward a possible coronavirus vaccine that might allow the world to revive manufacturing, shopping and normal life. Market benchmarks in London, Frankfurt and Tokyo advanced while […]

November 9, 2020

Stock futures on Wall Street surged on Monday after Pfizer said its vaccine was 90 percent effective in protecting people against Covid-19. U.S-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech made the announcement Monday morning, citing data from their […]

October 28, 2020

The stock market rout continued Wednesday, deepening this week’s losses on concerns that rising numbers of coronavirus infections in the U.S. and Europe will push governments to bring back restrictions on businesses. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 800 points, […]