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3 COVID-19 Antibody Stocks That Are Leading the Race

Antibodies to the rescue? According to a top U.S. health official, the U.S. government expects to provide 1 million doses of antibody treatments for COVID-19 similar to the one President Trump received at no cost.Currently, the administration’s Operation Warp Speed program has “a couple of hundred thousand doses” of the antibody treatments being developed by Regeneron and Eli Lilly. The therapies differ in that Regeneron’s is a cocktail or combination of two monoclonal antibodies, while Eli Lilly’s approach uses a single antibody.The President received Regeneron’s treatment under “compassionate use”, or when the FDA allows access to experimental drugs outside of …read more […]

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Huya Agrees to Buy DouYu to Create Chinese Game Streaming Giant

(Bloomberg) — Huya Inc. has agreed to buy DouYu International Holdings Ltd. in an all-share deal that will create a Chinese game-streaming giant with a market value of more than $11 billion.Investors have been offered 0.73 American depositary shares of Huya for each ADS of DouYu, the companies said in a statement on Monday. That values DouYu’s ADSs at about $18.83 apiece as of Friday’s closing price, a 35% premium, and values the company’s equity at about $5.98 billion.Tencent Holdings Ltd., which currently owns stakes in both companies, will hold about 68% of the merged business’s voting shares, giving the …read more […]

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Stock market news live updates: Stock futures trade higher with earnings, more stimulus talks ahead

Contracts on the three major indices traded higher Monday morning, as investors looked ahead to a round of quarterly corporate earnings results that are expected to have improved relative to previous quarters this year. Stimulus talks in Washington also remained in focus. …read more […]

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IEA nudges up 2020 gas demand forecast, but still sees record fall

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has nudged up its global gas demand forecast for this year, but still sees the biggest fall on record due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Paris-based agency said on Monday it now expected gas demand to drop by 3% year-on-year, or 120 billion cubic metres (bcm), to 3,886 bcm. “Global gas demand has been progressively recovering since June, driven mainly by emerging markets,” IEA director Fatih Birol said in a statement, after the agency published its “Global Gas Security Review 2020”. …read more […]

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Exclusive: Goldman Sachs financial targets jeopardized as pandemic slows revamp

Goldman Sachs Group Inc management is considering whether to scale back financial targets set earlier this year, as the coronavirus pandemic has hindered the bank’s business model revamp, analysts and sources inside the bank told Reuters. Goldman unveiled plans to boost returns on equity and cut costs during its first-ever investor day in January. To reach its goals, Goldman would squeeze more revenue from existing businesses like wealth management as well as relatively new ones like consumer lending, while launching additional corporate services like cash management. …read more […]

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Stimulus bets prop up S&P, Nasdaq futures

“Headline havoc will continue to drive volatility, but investors are all but certain that whoever wins the election, a new bold fiscal package is on the way,” said Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Americans were steadily losing confidence in President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with his net approval on the issue hitting a record low. With the Oct. 15 presidential debate officially canceled, Trump plans to travel to key battleground states this week as his doctor declared he was no longer a transmission risk for the novel …read more […]