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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Arkansas governor leads charge to break up US pharmacy companies
Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders — a former top lieutenant to Donald Trump — is leading a charge against big pharmacy companies Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
National Post
24-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
Harvest Declares Big Pharma Split Corp. July 2025 Distribution
Article content OAKVILLE, Ontario — Harvest Portfolios Group Inc. ('Harvest') declares the monthly cash distribution payable for Big Pharma Split Corp. of $0.1031 for each class A share (PRM:TSX) for the month ending July 31, 2025. The distribution is payable August 8, 2025 to class A shareholders of record at the close of business July 31, 2025. Article content For additional information: Please visit e-mail info@ or call toll free 1-866-998-8298. Article content For media inquiries: Contact Caroline Grimont, Senior Vice President, Marketing at cgrimont@ Article content About Harvest Portfolios Group Inc. Article content Founded in 2009, Harvest is an independent Canadian Investment Fund Manager managing $7.5 billion in assets for Canadian Investors. At Harvest ETFs, we believe that investors can build and preserve wealth through the long-term ownership of high-quality businesses. This fundamental philosophy is at the core of our investment approach across our range of ETFs. Our core offerings centre around covered call strategies, available in many variations: Equity, Enhanced, Fixed Income, Multi Asset, Specialty, Digital Assets and Single Stock ETFs. Article content Article content Article content E-mail: Article content Article content Article content Toll free: 1-866-998-8298 Article content Article content Follow Us on Social Media: Article content LinkedIn: Article content Article content Twitter: Article content Article content Article content Facebook: Article content Article content Article content You will usually pay brokerage fees to your dealer if you purchase or sell shares of the investment fund. If the shares are purchased or sold, investors may pay more than the current net asset value when buying shares of the investment fund and may receive less than the current net asset value when selling them. There are ongoing fees and expenses associated with owning shares of an investment fund. Investment funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated. An investment fund must prepare disclosure documents that contain key information about the investment fund. You can find more detailed information about the investment fund in these documents. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content For Additional Information: Article content Article content Website: Article content Article content Article content E-mail: Article content Article content Article content
Reuters
22-07-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Breakingviews - Big Pharma pioneers the TOFU tariff trade
DUBLIN, July 22 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Big Pharma is giving Donald Trump's credibility a booster shot. Buoyant stock markets generally seem to rest on the belief that the U.S. president always chickens out on provocative trade measures, known as the TACO principle. Yet drugmakers like Britain's $213 billion AstraZeneca (AZN.L), opens new tab, which on Monday revealed a surprisingly solid $50-billion, opens new tab American investment plan, seem to believe that sector-specific tariffs are possible or even likely. Call it the TOFU trade: Trump Occasionally Follows Up. AstraZeneca is not the first pharma company to make a big pledge. In April, opens new tab, only weeks after the now-infamous "Liberation Day" blizzard of trade threats, $260 billion Swiss group Roche (ROG.S), opens new tab also announced a $50-billion U.S. investment plan. That followed American drugmakers Pfizer (PFE.N), opens new tab and Eli Lilly (LLY.N), opens new tab, who had already announced their own chunky commitments to bring more production back home. The investments appear to have an element of damage control. Unlike the S&P 500 Index (.SPX), opens new tab, which is now up 11% since Trump's April 2 tariff announcements and closed at a record level on Monday, investors are offering pharma stocks little chance of immunity. The S&P Pharmaceuticals Select Industry Index is down 1% compared with Liberation Day, while European drugmakers like AstraZeneca, Roche, Novartis (NOVN.S), opens new tab, Sanofi ( opens new tab, GSK (GSK.L), opens new tab and Novo Nordisk ( opens new tab are down 5% to 18%. The falls generally look even more dramatic relative to early February levels, before Trump floated possible tariffs specifically on the sector. AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot is making a suitably aggressive bet to soothe investors' fears. His $50 billion pledge is equal to all forecast research and development costs and capital expenditures across 2025, 2026 and 2027, according to Breakingviews calculations using analysts' consensus forecasts gathered by Visible Alpha. Since the United States is only one market, and currently a little over 40% of total revenue, the pledge is undoubtedly a huge number - even if it includes some relabelling of plans that were already underway. Soriot has also made the specific commitment to build a new manufacturing facility in Virginia, which will partly focus on producing ingredients for the racy weight-loss treatment market. True, there's not a huge downside to investing in the largest pharmaceutical market in the world, where drugmakers can often charge 10 times what they can in Europe. Scaling up in the massive U.S. obesity market could pay off over time. On the other hand, analysts told Breakingviews that manufacturing in the United States can be costlier than in Europe because of generally higher staff turnover. Building a new factory also comes with risks. It's hard to argue that Soriot and his rivals would be doing all of this if not for the threat of tariffs. That, of course, could leave Big Pharma with a potential headache if Trump flakes on pharma tariffs, which could be announced as soon as next month. For Soriot and his fellow drugmaker CEOs, it makes sense to hope for TACO but get ready for TOFU. Follow Aimee Donnellan on LinkedIn, opens new tab.
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Musk says America needs to form a third political party. Do you agree? Tell us.
Americans are not happy. I'm not talking about the feeling of personal happiness. This, after all, is a myth pushed by Big Pharma. I'm talking about being happy or satisfied with where the country is headed. I'm talking about how we feel about America. That's right, I'm talking about our general frustration and annoyance with the state of American politics. Republicans will rush to point out that Democrats are quickly losing popularity with American voters. Democrats will point and laugh at President Donald Trump's comically low approval rating. I'm here to say that we hate them both. So, what is the fix? There has been a growing interest in creating a viable third political party that can disrupt the status quo. Take our poll: Is America's billionaire boom good for government, democracy? Tell us. | Opinion Forum Enter Elon Musk and why we're here today. Musk, in all his genius, has promised to create the "America Party." Obviously, he will fail, and he's a bigger political joke than both parties. Anything he creates will be an abomination and an altar to his ego that will offer very little to the rest of us. I know. I know there's a Trump joke to be made, but I won't make it. I'm better than that. But that doesn't mean Musk isn't bringing up a valid point and a question we need to be asking. Does America need a true multiparty system? So we decided to ask you. Does America need a third political party to emerge and help us find a better sense of political balance? Take our poll below or send us an email to forum@ with the subject line "America third party" to be included in our follow-up post. I'll even include a few questions for you to think about: Do we need a third party? Why? What sorts of things would you like a third party to consist of? What kind of issues or values should it focus on? Do you think Musk is the person to found or lead this party? Why or why not? If you're a Democrat, how do you feel about the party? If you're a Republican, how do you feel about the party? Louie Villalobos is Gannett's director of Opinion. You'll find him laughing at the Jill Stein supporters who thought they were changing the world. Do you want to take part in our next Forum? Join the conversation by emailing forum@ can also follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @usatodayopinion and sign up for our Opinion newsletter to stay updated on future Forum posts. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Musk wants a new US political party. Do we need it? Tell us | Opinion
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing The Conspiracy Theories They Actually Think Might Be Real, And Some Of These Are WILD
With everything going on in the world, it's honestly no wonder that people want to theorize about the ways that governments, celebrities, and, uh, aliens might be conspiring against the masses. That being said, when we recently asked the BuzzFeed Community about which conspiracy theories they actually believe might be real, we got some truly WILD responses. Without further ado, here's how some of the over 300 commenters responded: 1."The housing crash was crap. I guess we're just a dishonest society, but how can both the seller and buyer be doing the wrong thing and have it collapse?" —heroiczebra383 Related: 2."The moon landing was staged... Murica is all about marketing... and competing with China and Russia, LOL." —catnamedcalamity 3."That the Egyptian pyramids were designed by aliens. I don't know how they could have been built so precisely otherwise?" —txcinderelly 4."That there are cures for different cancers, but Big Pharma is keeping it quiet and such because their entire business is based on sick people." —savannahg4e56476eb 5."I think that maybe Ouija boards are *really* cursed. Once, I did one, and it spelled out my friend's name (she had bone cancer; her name was Pam) and the next morning, we found out she'd passed away..." —mxcchio- 6."I think everyone sees colors differently. I.e., my red looks like your blue, but we both learned what we see as 'red.'" —ashlynsmith "It's good to know I'm not the only one having weird thoughts like that, because I definitely have considered this. I mean, there's no way to know what other people see." —sharpgoose281 Related: 7."Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were at first a publicity stunt." —trendyflower917 8."That we are not real. Our galaxy is just located in a locker in a station in outer space or in the charm on the collar of a big orange cat." —mudda8139 9."That the calendar is built like it is (i.e., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) so we have to buy new ones every year, and it was all done by the calendar corporations to leech off our money." —the_snookie 10."Alien civilizations want nothing to do with the people of Earth because we are basically the trailer trash of the universe! We're supposed to be an intelligent society, but everything we do is to our detriment. We let people die because we don't share with each other, we have imaginary lines that people can't cross, and things that should be free, like food, clothes, and shelter, need to be bought with money." "The reason why they do experiments on us is that they're trying to figure out what's wrong with us and if it can be fixed. Obviously, the answer is no. They know that eventually we're just going to destroy ourselves." —jmacxjr Related: 11."The current state of the US is a direct result of Republican meddling, starting in 1968. The intent was to slowly dumb down the population, thus making them easier to control. The 'conspiracy' is that it was intentional." —kumamori137 12."AI listens to us all." —michaqay 13."That HGTV developed the open concept home to make money. Smash down walls with sledgehammers = more male viewership. Fewer walls means less materials, but builders can still charge the same as they were for more traditional homes." —micahdr 14."The government wants us all to be sick and dumb so we can rely on them for money and food. Doing this gives them full control. That's why our education levels suck compared to other countries and healthy food is so damn expensive." —heatherf416484889 "That's a lot like how I feel about why the government treats veterans like shit. We can't rise up if we're barely able to function." —certified_drapetomaniac 15."Religion was created by men to deny the fact that women are the superior gender — oh wait." —sandrac4c3faf3dc 16."Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same bird. They're working together and just give constituents the illusion of choice. They're in politics for themselves and for the monied elite." —buzzkeeper Related: 17."The world really did end in 2012 in accordance with the Mayan Calendar, and our collective consciousness has been uploaded into a simulation that is being observed by aliens for their entertainment." —certified_drapetomaniac "Or this is the bad place, and they're running out of plot lines to torture us." —monikap6 18."Aliens got here a long, long time ago, and they're in the ocean." —jessethecowgirl 19."IDK if it's a conspiracy theory, but aliens are definitely out there. There are billions of planets that could sustain life out there, so that's billions of opportunities for life to evolve. It happened on Earth, why can't it happen somewhere else in the universe?" —faborca223 "Technically, aliens are considered a conspiracy theory, but we've found life in our solar system. But that's just in our solar system. The universe itself is so unfathomably huge that it seems impossible that there wouldn't be life out there. Not necessarily advanced, space-travelling life, but there's definitely at least one other planet or moon that can support life. Or some species that evolved to withstand the conditions of whatever rock they're on." —lacjiba 20."The current elites are doing space travel because they plan to go up to space for a few days while they get robot drones and droids to kill us, and then they'll come back to Earth to enjoy their privilege." —saffa88 21."The paintings on display in museums and art galleries are replicas, and the real ones are hidden in a vault somewhere." —ishouldstopactingcool finally, "Dragons were real." —mkayla8886 So, we have to ask: What's a conspiracy theory you believe is real? Get weird in the comments. Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity. Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds: Solve the daily Crossword
