India's Zydus Cadila to make Gilead's potential COVID-19 drug remdesivir

India's Zydus Cadila to make Gilead's potential COVID-19 drug remdesivir

Indian drugmaker Zydus Cadila said on Friday it signed a non-exclusive licensing pact with Gilead Sciences Inc to manufacture and market antiviral drug remdesivir, the first treatment to show improvement in COVID-19 trials. Zydus, listed as Cadila Healthcare, joins other Indian pharmaceutical companies Cipla Ltd, Jubilant Sciences Ltd and privately held Hetero Labs Ltd in signing non-exclusive pacts with Gilead for the drug. The drug, intravenously administered in hospitals, has already been approved for emergency use in severely-ill patients in the United States, India and South Korea....

China Scooping Up Canadian Miners After Gold Rally Heats Up M&A

(Bloomberg) -- Chinese miners are buying up small Canadian gold producers as gold prices have rallied about 35% from the start of last year.Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. agreed to buy Guyana Goldfields Inc. for cash on Friday, with a deal valuation of about C$323 million. This follows the May announcement by Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd. to buy TMAC Resources Inc. for cash at an equity value of about $149 million.Spot gold prices and gold miners have outperformed the global equity markets this year amid Covid-19 uncertainties and unprecedented global stimulus. That follows an 18% gain last year on broader global growth fears, which had helped drive a series of deals in recent months.Zijin bought Guyana Goldfields after a hard fought battle with two other miners. The initial offer came from Silvercorp Metals Inc. on April 27 to buy Guyana for C$0.60 per share or a share exchange deal. However,...

Hedge Funds Are Selling Suncor Energy Inc. (SU)

Insider Monkey has processed numerous 13F filings of hedge funds and successful value investors to create an extensive database of hedge fund holdings. The 13F filings show the hedge funds' and successful investors' positions as of the end of the first quarter. You can find articles about an individual hedge fund's trades on numerous financial […]...