Author: Vitaliy Dadalyan

Fauci Optimistic for New Covid Treatment to Be Available by Fall

(Bloomberg) -- Anthony Fauci told Facebook, Inc. ‘s Mark Zuckerberg that he expects results for a clinical trial on monoclonal antibodies by late summer or early fall, underscoring the speed at which the government has been working to quickly approve and roll out treatment for the novel coronavirus.A monoclonal antibody is a laboratory-produced protein that can potentially be used to treat sick patients as well as for prophylaxis. Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, described them as “precise bullets” that can be developed from antibodies from other people who’ve been infected and used as a treatment to fight the virus at multiple stages.“What we really need are drugs that, when given early, can prevent a symptomatic person from requiring hospitalization or very dramatically diminish the time that they’re symptomatic,” Fauci said during the Facebook Live interview on Thursday. Monoclonal antibodies can be administrated intravenously or through a shot.Fauci, director of...

Forty-Three Days of Nasdaq Dip Buying May End With Netflix

(Bloomberg) -- For fans of haywire market statistics, there’s this: The Nasdaq Composite has managed to go two months without posting back-to-back declines. That record streak was under threat after Netflix Inc.’s after-hours drop sent exchange-traded funds tracking the tech space lower.The index, weighted to megacaps like Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc., lost 0.7% in Thursday’s regular session, as investors rotated out of tech in favor of laggards like airlines and energy. An ETF tied to its sister index, the Nasdaq 100, was down another 0.5% as of 7:12 p.m. in New York.The proximate culprit was Netflix, which said it expects to add 2.5 million paid subscribers to its streaming service in the third quarter, about half the estimate in data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock was down about 8% from its close at 4 p.m. in New York, dragging Amazon and Facebook down in sympathy.A retreat Friday in the larger...