• Oracle is looking to buy Cerner for $90 per share, according to CNBC.
  • GlaxoSmithKline wants to list its consumer products division on the LSE in 2022.
  • Pfizer expects the COVID-19 pandemic to persist through 2024, but only in some areas, while others progress to endemic.
  • Elon Musk (Tesla) says he will pay $11 billion in taxes this year.
  • Banca Monte Dei Paschi plans to raise €2.5 billion in 2022 to comply with regulatory standards.
  • Tesla is facing legal action from investors over Musk's tweets about his stock sales.
  • Chinese Estates Holdings plunges 30% in Hong Kong after its failed delisting.
  • BE Semiconductor cuts fourth-quarter revenue guidance due to flooding in Malaysia.
  • Amgen and AstraZeneca win FDA approval for Tezspire in severe asthma.
  • Novartis fails with ligelizumab for urticaria.
  • Dominic Barton to succeed Simon Thompson as chairman of Rio Tinto.
  • British Airways (International Consolidated Airlines) cancels flights to Hong Kong until March 2022.
  • Aker BP and Maersk Drilling sign a $1 billion agreement to drill a Jack-Up platform.
  • Implenia to build a district heating tunnel under the Elbe River.
  • Orsted wins Skipjack Wind 2 contract in Maryland, USA.
  • Galenica expects to partially exceed its 2021 forecast.
  • Royal Dutch Shell completes the acquisition of US solar company Savion.
  • Former Telecom Italia CEO Luigi Gubitosi has agreed to step down from the company's board.
  • Nikola is delivering pilot trucks to Total Transportation Services in Southern California.
  • Italy's Zegna will list on the NYSE starting Dec. 20 after merging with a SPAC.
  • Mondee will go public in New York.

 

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