The American company Pfizer and the German BioNTech have applied to the European Medicines Agency for registration of their coronavirus vaccine. The announcement was published on the BioNTech website.
“On Monday, November 30, Pfizer and BioNTech filed a formal application with the European Medicines Agency for a conditional authorization to use their COVID-19 candidate vaccine BNT162b2,” the companies said in a joint statement.
If the EU Medicines Agency decides that the benefits of a candidate vaccine outweigh the risks, it recommends the drug to be authorized. This will allow to start using the drug in Europe by the end of 2020.
Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the UK could be the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNtech. According to them, the drug can be approved “in the coming days”, deliveries will begin within a few hours after obtaining permission, and the first vaccinations will be made from December 7.
The American oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil had one of the worst years in its history. Exxon shares have fallen by 45.36% since the beginning of 2020. The company has lost money for three quarters in a row, and in August they were excluded from the benchmark index of “blue chips” Dow Jones Industrial […]
Johnson & Johnson plans to complete the third phase of trials of its single-dose vaccine against COVID-19 in mid-January 2021. Paul Stoffels, vice chairman of the executive committee, senior scientific expert at Johnson & Johnson said they plan to deliver to market 1 billion doses. “We are in the middle of the third phase of […]
The National Bank did not go out this week with interventions on the interbank market, according to the press service of the regulator on Friday, November 27. The Central Bank has been refusing to buy or sell currency for three weeks in a row. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the […]
Last week, from November 16 to 22, more than 4 million people in the world became infected with the new type of coronavirus, which is a record number since the beginning of the pandemic. This was announced on Tuesday, November 24, the press service of the World Health Organization. According to the WHO, in these […]
With the appearance of an effective vaccine against coronavirus and the subsequent recovery of the world economy, the US dollar may fall by 20%. This was reported by the Financial Times. It is noted that banks, which already had negative forecasts for the dollar next year, deteriorated expectations against the background of the emergence of […]
Special isothermal containers have been developed for the transportation and storage of the new coronavirus vaccine by the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech. This was announced by Pfizer CEO Albert Burla in an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, November 17. “These containers are equipped with GPS sensors and thermometers inside so that […]
The vaccine, developed by biotechnology company Moderna, is effective in 94.5% of cases. This result was shown by the intermediate results of the third phase of clinical trials, the company said. On this news, Moderna shares went up. In the pre-market, the company’s quoting rose by more than 18%, rising above $ 105 per share. […]
The court satisfied the claim of the state-owned PrivatBank to Agroterminal and decided to collect UAH 1 billion in debt from it as a guarantor of Boryvazh. This is stated in the decision of the Commercial Court of Odessa region. According to court materials, PrivatBank terminated the loan agreement due to the debtor’s breach of […]
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This week the report of the Alphabet associated company of Google for the fourth quarter 2015 is eagerly awaited in Wall Street. The company for the first time reports on the results separately from the rest of their enterprises. In October, Google conducted a massive restructuring process and has become a part of Alphabet holding […]
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Etalon Corporation will restore the job of Chernihiv mechanical engineering complex in 2017. This writes the Interfax Ukraine referring to the statement by President of the Company Volodymyr Butko. According to the original source, the resumption of production is scheduled for January next year. Also it is planned to manufacture machinery for about 25 units […]
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The famous Italian fashion house Prada has decided to make adjustments of the management of its business because of the fact that the company’s sales began to fall. General Director of Prada Patrizio Bertelli is going to re-equip production and hold a business restructuring. At the end of 2013 the company’s revenues declined, while management […]
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BMW has agreed to pay 18 million dollars fine for distortion of sales data for five years. About it with reference to the Commission on securities and stock exchanges of the USA. According to the commission, from 2015 to 2019, BMW maintained a reserve of unaccounted for car retail sales, which it used to achieve […]
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The investment company Prosperity Capital Management has concentrated 7.93% of global depositary receipts (of GDR) of the largest Ukrainian producer of poultry – agricultural holding “MHP” (MHP). According to a report on the website of the London Stock Exchange on Friday, now the company owns 8,000,000 789,186 GDR. According to the information at Prosperity Capital […]
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At the annual press conference as part of “Architecture Day 2020”, Intel has announced improvements in the production of new graphics processors for laptops, PCs and server processors. Positive news was received in not the best time for the company Intel, since July 23, after the close of Thursday, shares fell by more than 20%, […]
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The Hungarian-Polish low-cost airline has decided to return to the Ukrainian market. The Loukost Wizz Air is seriously considering the possibility of expanding its presence in the Ukrainian market. This was told by the CEO of the airline Jozsef Varadi in an interview to the Polish portal fly4free.pl. “We see that the situation in Ukraine […]
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The chain of one of the world’s most popular fast food restaurants McDonald’s is suspected in violating tax laws in Europe. Today, the European Commissioner for Competition Margaret Vestager plans to announce a formal investigation into tax treaties with Luxembourg McDonald’s – reports Reuters with reference to informed sources. The investigation is scheduled to consider […]
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Recently, one of the plants of Lviv, which operates in the agricultural sector, has become bankrupt. This refers to the agricultural machinery plant “Lvovselmash” that the Commercial Court of Zaporizhia region declared a bankrupt and opened the liquidation procedure. Last month, in February, the Commercial Court of Zaporizhia region ordered the reopening of the bankruptcy […]
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Publicly-held company Bank Khreschatyk has managed to prepay debt to the National Bank of Ukraine in the amount of 190 457 000 UAH. According to the official information, the implementation of the requirements of the loan from the NBU refinancing was realized by raising funds derived from repayment of the package of domestic government loan […]
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On Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has introduced the long-awaited line of four next-generation Ryzen 5000 series CPUs for the desktop PCs, based on the new Zen 3 architecture. Ryzen 5000 series products are based on the 7-nm manufacturing process of the Taiwan Semiconductor and designed for the computer gamers and the content creators. AMD […]
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Saturday morning in the company of LDaily and our traditional surveys of the most prominent, important and interesting events in the world of business in a week – is a great chance to start the day not only pleasantly , but also with the use. After all, the information is always an advantage, the quality […]
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The decision of the Constitutional Court violates Ukraine’s obligations to Western creditors. This was reported by the Ministry of Finance with reference to the statement of the head of the department Serhiy Marchenko. He addressed to the assessments of the World Bank management regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court on the officials’ e-declarations. “They […]
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The State Property Fund of Ukraine has put the Vinnytsia diamond processing plant Crystal up for privatization auction for almost 90 million hryvnias. This is stated in the message of the Foundation. It is noted that the plant not only cuts and grinds precious stones, but also makes jewelry. They produce more than five thousand […]
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In China, two more developers are unable to repay their debts: Fantasia Holdings has been unable to repay bonds worth $ 205.7 million, and Sinic Holdings is uncertain about the repayment of $ 246 million in bonds, the BBC reports. The day before, trading in Evergrande shares was suspended on the eve of “an announcement […]
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