Pfizer (PFE) has a new ad campaign for its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. The marketing message is all over TV and in little video clips online. Reuters.com appears to have one of…
Douglas A. McIntyre Following is the short interest in stocks of major companies traded on the NYSE. Figures are as of October 15 and compare to numbers on September 28, 2007. Most of the large…
IMS Health (RX) Bad numbers and a downgrade. Falls to $21.20 from 52-week high of $33.12. The PMI Group (PMI) Housing and mortgage markets hurt quarter. Falls to $22.80 from 52-week high…
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) is seeing shares hitting 52-week lows after its pharmaceutical partner Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) unexpectedly said it would end its involvement in inhaled diabetes drug Exubera and return the licensing…
Pfizer (PFE) posted third-quarter 2007 revenues of $12.0 billion, a 2% decline from the same period last year. The Company’s reported net income was $761 million in the third quarter of 2007,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Pfizer (PFE) is hooking up with doctor social network Sermo. According to The Wall Street Journal: "Pfizer-affiliated doctors will be able to talk candidly with the site’s 31,000 members, potentially giving the…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) and other large banksare planning to create a roughly $80 billion fund to buy ailing mortgage securities and other assets. Reuters writes that Medtronic (MDT) is suspending…
For Pfizer, it has been a long and painful fall. In early 2004, its shares were just below $39. It was the age of Big Pharma. Most of the big drugs had…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, RIM (RIMM) posted strong earnings and added it 10 millionth subscriber. Reuters writes that Wal-Mart (WMT) is already getting ready for holiday price wars by beginning to drop prices.…
According to Reuters, RIM (RIMM) posted strong earnings and added it 10 millionth subscriber. Reuters writes that Wal-Mart (WMT) is already getting ready for holiday price wars by beginning to drop prices.…
GE (GE) has been hoping that growth in the developing world would begin to offset slower sales in places like the US and Europe. It may be that they are finally getting…
The Nigerian government is suing Pfizer (PFE) claiming that it "deceived patients and caused the death of 11 children in 1996 when it performed clinical trials for a new drug." According to…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will write-off $3.4 billion, another victim of the credit crunch. Reuters writes that the Teamsters and UPS (UPS) have come to a new contract. Reuters writes that…
A Canadian court ruled that Apotex could not market a generic version of Viagra, Pfizer’s (PFE) massively successful ED drug. Oddly, Pfizer’s shares were down 1.2% to $24.35. The Big Pharma company…
Douglas A. McIntyre Patients who swtich from Pfizer’s (PFE) monster selling drug cholesterol pill Lipitor to Merck’s (MRK) Zocor, now available in generic form are more likely to have a heart attack or die. According…
