Oil futures extended gains Tuesday, a day after the global crude benchmark closed at an eight-month high, as bullish traders cheered progress toward a vaccine.
Continue readingU.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca AZN, -3.81% said on Monday that the coronavirus vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford had shown an average efficacy of 70% in the Phase 3 trials, and that it would “immediately prepare regulatory submission” of the data for approval by regulatory authorities around the world, for conditional or early […]
Continue readingThe vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford can prevent 70.4% of people from getting COVID-19, and up to 90% if a lower dose is used. justin tallis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford said on Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate was found to be as much as 90% […]
Continue readingThe U.K. has ordered 40 million vaccine doses from Pfizer and BioNTech – enough for up to a third of the population. justin tallis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The U.K.’s medicines regulator said on Monday that a decision on whether to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will be made in the “shortest time possible,” after receiving data […]
Continue readingGold futures tallied their first gain in four sessions on Friday, but posted a second straight weekly decline, as momentum in bullion buying has ebbed considerably, despite an environment of rising cases of COVID-19 and tightening social restrictions.
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