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. […]
Russia’s external government debt reached $61.97 billion as of February 1, 2026, the highest figure in the past 20 years, according to data from the Ministry of Finance of Russia, reported by The Moscow Times. As of January 1, 2006, Russia’s external public debt stood at $76.5 billion, but by 2007 it had fallen to […]
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The Central Bank of Russia, which has filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court against the Belgian depository Euroclear, is demanding 18.2 trillion rubles (approximately $229 billion), Russian media report. On December 12, the Russian central bank filed the claim over what it described as the “illegal actions of the Euroclear depository causing damage,” as […]
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According to informed sources, the Antimonopoly Committee has fined the Dnepropetrivsk pharmacy for consumer fraud. The fine for the violation of unfair anti-competition law amounted to 68 thousand UAH. The Dnipropetrivsk regional territorial office of the AMCU asked the “Pharmacy №338”, LLC (Dnepropetrivsk) to pay the fine as soon as possible. This was said on […]
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According to Ilia Sahaidak – a deputy chairman of the KSCA, a building company CRBC from China intends to implement the “turnkey construction project” of Velyka Kiltseva Doroha, the track Nyvky – Brovary, and in addition, road interchange near the metro station Shuliavska. Sahaidak noted that the Chinese company in this matter demonstrates great skill […]
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The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has found that three companies — Lirans LLC, Trading House Morshynski Dzherela, and Shayanski Dzherela — violated legislation on protection against unfair competition. The companies have been fined, the agency reported. According to the AMCU, the companies distributed misleading information about their bottled water brands — Aqua Baby, Aqua […]
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“Svarog West Group” will direct $ 3.5 million for innovative projects in 2016. That was said by the chairman of the Corporation Andrey Gordiychuk in an interview to the AgroPolit.com. According to him, the investment “appetite” of the company significantly decreased in 2016. “But this does not apply to investments in research and development: ours are IT-solutions, […]
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Ukraine’s economic growth in 2026 is expected to remain at the same level as this year — 2%, with an acceleration to 5% now projected only in 2027, according to the latest World Bank report. “Economic growth in Ukraine is projected to slow. GDP growth is likely to decelerate to 2% in 2025 from 2.9% […]
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Shares of Nikola fell to 36.45% over the last week. Energy giant BP’s announcement on Wednesday that it is abandoning a potential partnership with Nikola, which exacerbated a number of problems faced by the startup in the recent days. Nikola planned to organize the production of its cars in partnership with other large manufacturers and […]
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Kyiv bank “Piraeus Bank ICB” asks the Commercial Court of Kirovograd region to recover from the “Creative”company, which entering into the “Creative Group”, $ 15,629,000 of the loan debt, – reports the “ProAgro”. This is stated in the bench ruling of the court from January 27, 2016. “Piraeus Bank ICB” filed a lawsuit to recover […]
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Antimonopoly regulator of EU approved the agreement of 16.2 billion euro merger with French group for the production of luxury goods LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) and transnational jewelry company Tiffany. This was reported by Reuters. According to the information, the merger agreement was approved without additional conditions for the companies. Earlier, Tiffany reported that […]
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Ukraine will allocate 2.6 billion hryvnias for the purchase of a coronavirus vaccine. This was stated by Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko at the press conference on Monday, September 14. “By 2023, we have a real opportunity to ensure health care spending at 5%. There is an increase in 2021 to 4.2% of GDP for health […]
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The disruption of global energy supplies caused by Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz surpasses any previous crisis in history, including the oil shocks of the 1970s. This was stated by the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, Reuters reports. “Never before has the world faced an energy supply disruption of […]
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March, 14 Kyiv District Administrative Court declared illegal inactivity of the regulator in relation to the “Ukrgazprombank”, which was declared insolvent in 2015, and now goes into liquidation. The lawsuit was filed by one of the contributors of the Ukrgazprombank – “Trading House Sanko” LLC , writes the FinClub. In August 2014 the company has […]
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The total cost of Ukraine’s recovery as of December 31, 2025, is estimated at $588 billion over the next decade. This figure is nearly three times higher than Ukraine’s projected nominal GDP for 2025. The updated Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA5) was published by the Government of Ukraine, the World Bank Group, the European […]
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LLC Dan-Pharm Ukraine expects to put into operation pig factory farm on feeding of 25 thousand hogs in Korostensky district in the Zhytomyr region. On Tuesday, Vadim Shestakov,the First Deputy CEO of the company told journalists during the AgrarianOlympus of 2016 international congress : “We began to build it in 2014 and we have been […]
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