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Oxford Biomedica plc (OXB.L), a gene and cell therapy group, reported Wednesday that its first-half net profit was 18.1 million pounds, compared to last year’s loss of 6.7 million pounds. The basic profit per share was 21.92 pence, compared to last year’s loss of 8.69 pence. The company continues large-scale commercial manufacture of AstraZeneca’s adenovirus […]
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How much does education matter in America? The U.S. government and researchers tend to look at education in tiers. At the lowest level are those who did graduate from high school, followed by those who did, then those with some college education, and then those with a bachelor’s degree. The reason for these tiers is […]
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Cabinet approves ₹30,600 crore guarantee programme. Paving the way for a major clean-up of bad loans in the banking system, the Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a ₹30,600-crore guarantee programme for securities to be issued by the newly incorporated ‘bad bank’ for taking over and resolving non-performing assets (NPAs) amounting to ₹2 lakh crore. The Reserve […]
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UK consumer price inflation accelerated at a record pace in August, hitting the highest rate since 2012, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Wednesday. The consumer price index rose 3.2 percent year-on-year following a 2.0 percent climb in July. Economists had forecast 2.9 percent inflation and also remained well above the 2 percent […]
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Associated British Foods plc. (ASBFY.PK,ABF.L) said it expects adjusted earnings per share for the full year to be ahead of previous guidance and marginally ahead of last year excluding the cost of repayment of job retention scheme monies. The company noted that its outlook for the group’s adjusted operating profit, stated before repayment of job […]
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As a student at Peking University law school in 1978, Li Keqiang kept both pockets of his jacket stuffed with handwritten paper slips. An English word was written on one side, a former classmate recalled, and the matching Chinese version was written on the other. Li, now China’s premier, was part of China’s English-learning craze. […]
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If nothing else, President Xi Jinping is known for his pursuit of order. So how far the Chinese president’s attack on the “disorderly expansion of capital” will go has emerged as a defining question for investors trying to navigate the country’s wave of regulatory crackdowns. Since first appearing in a Politburo readout in December, the […]
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Switzerland’s economy expanded in the second quarter as the relaxation of COVID related measures helped to recover from two straight quarters of contraction, data published by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, or SECO, revealed Thursday. Gross domestic economy grew 1.8 percent sequentially, reversing a 0.4 percent fall in the first quarter and a 0.1 […]
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Like most people in the developed world, Kirsten Gjesdal had long taken for granted her ability to order whatever she needs and then watch the goods arrive, without any thought about the factories, container ships and trucks involved in delivery. Not anymore. Inventor Eric Poses has seen international shipping costs for his board games soar, […]
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India’s economy logged a record growth in the three months to June, but that came from an extremely low base in the same period last year when the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns hurt economic activity severely. Gross domestic product grew 20.1 percent year-on-year in the April to June quarter versus a 24.4 percent contraction […]
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