Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

While the job losses varied across sectors, with job skills and unionization being determining factors, the top line numbers tell the story. However, attempts at disruption, whether it be from Mark Cubans pharmaceutical start-up or from Google and Amazons health care endeavors, have largely left the system intact.

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CFO Dive

JULY 9, 2025

The number is at its lowest level since the third quarter of last year. On Tuesday, the president said he was planning to introduce tariffs of 50% on copper imports and levies “at a very, very high rate, like 200%” on pharmaceutical products, as reported by CFO Dive sister publication Supply Chain Dive. Dive Insight: Sweeping U.S.

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Global Finance

JULY 1, 2025

According to US Customs and Border Protection, the total number of goods seized at the US borders for intellectual property rights violations more than doubled from 2020 to 2024, and the total manufacturer’s suggested retail price of these goods increased by 415%. More recent national data for the US confirms the trend.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, they’ve put up some really impressive numbers over the past 30 years, which has given them the opportunity to donate tens of millions of dollars to their favorite organizations. We don’t give exact numbers. Number one, it means our transaction costs are less, which based on your career, you know exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2025

Americans spend more on clothing made in Sri Lanka than Sri Lankans spend on American pharmaceuticals and gas turbines. The deficit numbers dont suggest, let alone prove, unfair competition. Trade imbalances between two countries can emerge for many reasons that have nothing to do with protectionism.

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Navigator SAP

MAY 30, 2023

Serialization in pharmaceutical packaging is the process of assigning and labeling a unique serial number for each product to be sold. This contains information about the product’s origin, batch number, and validity or expiration date.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

percent from Q4 2019 to Q4 2020, as consumer health and pharmaceutical sales rose while medical devices worldwide operational sales fell amid the pandemic. It reported that pharmaceutical worldwide operational sales grew by 8.4 Johnson & Johnson reported on Tuesday (Jan. on sales of $22.5 billion.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 21, 2023

” Eli Lilly — Shares of the pharmaceutical company slumped more than 1% in premarket after the U.S. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals — The pharmaceutical giant gained 1% in the premarket after being upgraded to overweight from neutral by JPMorgan. The firm also announced that co-CEO Reed Hastings would step down from the role.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

And perhaps, most critically, matching patients with the right doctors, and various healthcare professionals with the right pharmaceutical companies during research and trials can speed treatments and new drugs as they move from concept to real-life therapies. Healthcare, of course, is top of mind these days, for obvious reasons.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And it is upending healthcare too, perhaps most visibly in pharmaceuticals, where we can get our meds mailed, on autopilot. The direct to consumer ( DTC) model is changing the way we get our goods and services across everything from makeup to meal kits. Most sufferers have never been able to have specialized visits, he said.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Executives at airlines and travel companies said increased activity among IT, mechanical, banking services, and pharmaceutical companies is driving the trend.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Now some industry observers are asking whether the virtual IPO may potentially outlive the coronavirus crisis that spawned it, with a growing number of companies embracing the efficiencies of the new process. In the meantime, the number of successful virtual IPOs, including virtual roadshows, are growing by the week.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

billion records last year, calling it “the worst year on record” and noting that the number of records exposed was 284 percent higher than in 2018. The information and healthcare sectors suffered the highest number of breaches, the report found. One study reported that 7,098 breaches exposed 15.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Not enough humans are flying internationally to justify numbers of flights. The shipments include products such as cheese, ham and pharmaceuticals. United Airlines , Delta Air Lines and American Airlines are among those that have adopted the new tactic. The logic behind the development is straightforward.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Friday’s report of 467,000 jobs added in January confounded Wall Street economists, some of whom expected a negative number due to the impact of the omicron Covid variant on the workforce. There are also dozens of earnings in the week ahead, including pharmaceutical names Pfizer and Amgen. year-over-year pace in January.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

PYMNTS breaks down the numbers of the latest in B2B fraud below. Researchers also found an increase in the number of times bank employees clicked malicious links as fraudsters aimed to take advantage of the current volatility related to the pandemic. As Bloomberg calculated, that would mean an estimated $850 million annual for J.P.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The news comes as drugstore owners and healthcare providers are looking for ways to diversify, especially since there are rumors swirling that Amazon will eventually be entering the pharmaceutical market. Last year, for example, CVS acquired the number-three U.S. health insurer Aetna for $69 billion.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In the years since, I have concluded that this is not true and that expense mis-categorization is not only common, but that it varies widely across sectors, making it difficult to compare accounting numbers or ratios across firms.

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CFO News

MARCH 23, 2023

The idea is to significantly enhance the number of medium enterprises in the country, which currently constitutes a miniscule 0.01% of the total MSMEs in India, a senior government official told ET. The policy could cover medium units from sectors including engineering, electrical, chemical and pharmaceuticals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

“The number of cyberattacks against organizations and individuals is significant and is expected to increase,” Europol’s announcement stated. Indeed, only days later, Europol announced an arrest into one BEC scam involving the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

Unger shared NACHA’s case study on how global pharmaceuticals company Merck optimized its performance by employing ISO 20022 XML for ACH payments. However, highlighting the payment efficiencies that come with the ISO 20022 standard may be the best (and most convincing) starting point for approaching corporations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

B2B Pay plans to roll out API-enabled banking services, the ability to create an unlimited number of International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs), credit card processing and solutions related to cryptocurrency. The company was among 40 FinTechs accepted into the Accelerator.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. In the first session of my valuation class, I pose a question, “What comes more naturally to you, telling a story or working with numbers?”

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. That is because the answer will vary across people, with some exhibiting a more natural tendency towards story-telling and others towards working with numbers.

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CFO News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and insurance sectors will see higher increases. 28% of companies plan to add headcount, while 68% will maintain their current numbers. India Inc will offer a median salary increase of 9.5% It matches the hikes in 2024. Concerns include cost management, inflation, and a tighter labor market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2020

Uber Health made big news this past week with the announcement that it was scaling up its delivery services to include pharmaceutical products in some locales. The first is to make more delivery options, along with remote ordering to the growing number of consumers looking for it. With COVID-19 cases still on the rise across the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The newest numbers from the WHO show that more than 82,000 people have become infected. And, the Food and Drug Administration said the pharmaceutical space noted its first medicine shortage because of the coronavirus, CNBC reported. The WHO said it was increasing its assessment of worldwide risk from “high” to “very high.”

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Jedox Finance

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Imagine replacing “stories” with “numbers” in these lines. While everyone understands good stories only some of us understand numbers, so they can never be the common denominator which we use to communicate to our audience. Hence, rather than leading with numbers FP&A must lead with stories to be heard. Does it make sense?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The KPMG Financial Performance Index (FPI) found a slight decline in the number of ‘zombie’ companies, which are organisations close to default (scoring 0 on the KPMG FPI for three or more consecutive quarters. However, an increase in the number of distressed companies suggests a prolonged and gradual recovery ahead. in 2Q23 to 90.62

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The products are also cruelty-free and are ethically manufactured according to Nallan, and designed over the 10,000 hours alongside “Indian, Taiwanese, and Japanese dermato-cosmetologists, pharmacists and pharmaceutical engineers,” he said.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the years since, I have concluded that this is not true and that expense mis-categorization is not only common, but that it varies widely across sectors, making it difficult to compare accounting numbers or ratios across firms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

And, pharmaceutical company Royalty Pharma began touting its forthcoming IPO to possible investors, intending to raise $1.9 Nasdaq is typically more affordable for companies through its cheaper $159,000 annual fee cap for number of shares outstanding. billion and is the current largest IPO of 2020 to date, according to WSJ.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Among them is B2B Pay, which provides free International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN) for companies exporting into Europe. Ten startups were chosen for the Tel Aviv Accelerator, according to reports, from Israel and elsewhere.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

NXP said the NFC chips offer a cost-effective product protection and channel authentication for the fashion, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, electrical appliances, and other consumer and industrial goods markets throughout the supply chain. “As

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

It said there were “material discrepancies” between the numbers the company reported in April in its initial public offering (IPO) filing and the presentation. Citron claims the company inflated its active merchant numbers as well as its active customer base. The firm became well-known after it targeted Valeant, a pharmaceutical firm.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

The project itself, according to the aforementioned site, is tied to 20 companies that span pharmaceutical manufacturers, repackagers and distributors. The activities are being coordinated by the San Francisco blockchain technology company known as Chronicled.

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