First Citizens Bankshares Inc. FCNCB 16.66% Said on Friday that it plans to buy CIT Group Inc. C.I.T. 27.94% In all-stock deals worth about 2 2.7 billion. The combination of New York City-based Raleigh, NC and CIT-based First Citizens Will create more than 100 billion in assets from one of …
Read More »Tab Tab B, Coca-Cola Diet-Soda Pioneer and the ’70s Sign, Is Going Away
The soda giant’s first diet cola was a culture icon in the 1970s and early ’80s, then pale after the launch of Diet Coke. Although the market share of Tab Tab became almost non-existent, the beverage company continued the brand for decades to please a fairly dedicated base known as …
Read More »Pfizer will be able to apply for emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine in late November
Pfizer Inc. P.F.E. -0.84% Said it may be ready to apply for emergency-use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, believing that in late-stage human trials will yield positive efficacy and safety data, the first time it or any other leading Western vaccine developer This kind of …
Read More »Trump, Biden at Dualing Town Hall as Coronavirus Rattles campaign
President Trump will answer questions at a townhall in Miami on Thursday and Joe Biden will do the same in Philadelphia. Photo: (L) Alex Adelman / Agency French-Prison / Getty Images |, (R) Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images October 15, 2020 at 10:47 a.m. ET President Trump and John Biden …
Read More »Covid-19 outbreak leads to dangerous delay in cancer diagnosis
Decreases in mammograms and other screening procedures after a coronavirus epidemic strikes can lead to missed and delayed cancer diagnoses, according to statistics from insurance claims, lab orders, Medicare billings, and oncology-practice records. Starting this spring, the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of cancer screenings were postponed following concerns about the …
Read More »