Text size fake pictures Shares of AstraZeneca rose on Thursday as new drug sales helped the British pharmaceutical giant exceed expectations in the second quarter. Late-stage trials for its experimental coronavirus vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, have also begun in the UK, Brazil and South Africa, the company …
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Text size CEO of Ericsson Börje Ekholm (Per Myrehed). Shares in Ericsson soared more than 10% on Friday, after the Swedish telecoms company reported higher-than-expected second-quarter earnings, fueled by an increase in 5G network sales and software revenue. The back story. Ericsson has made a recovery under Börje Ekholm, who …
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Text size Goldman Sachs analyst Fei Fang downgraded US depositary receipts from Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO to Sell from Hold. ADRs are falling on Friday, but that’s after nearly doubling in the past month. Photography by Giulia Marchi / Bloomberg Recovery of a stock of electric vehicles has gone …
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Text size Fisker Inc., a new maker of electric vehicles, will announce a merger with a SPAC. The company may be new, but its founder and namesake Henrik Fisker designed the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin V8 Vantage. He has high hopes for electric vehicles and some innovative ideas. Simon …
Read More »Airlines face continuing uncertainty about Covid-19. Wall Street is of two minds.
Text size Two analysts covering Southwest Airlines took two different tacks on the action, with one analyst raising the target price and the other lowering the equivalent of Hold. However, in the era of the coronavirus pandemic, Southwest has been one of the toughest airline stocks. Ethan Miller / Getty …
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