BRIEFCASE JURORS WANT MORE ENRON-CASE FILES.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services HOUSTON - Jurors deliberating the fate of four former Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. & Co. executives and two former midlevel mid·lev·el n. The middle stage or level, as in a series, course of action, or career. Enron Corp. executives on trial for conspiracy and fraud have requested lists of the reams of documents presented during the six-week trial. Deliberations wrapped up Friday without a verdict shortly after the panel sent a note to the judge midafternoon Friday, the first full day of deliberations in the first criminal trial to emerge from Enron's 2001 collapse. U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein directed attorneys on both sides to comply with the request by Monday. The jury began deliberating late Thursday after hearing lengthy closing arguments. Chevron Texaco has gusher profits SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The San Ramon-based company said Friday that it earned $3.2 billion, or $1.51 per share, during the three months ended in September. That compared with net income of $1.98 billion, or $1.01 per share, at the same time last year. If not for profits generated by since-discontinued operations, ChevronTexaco said, it would have earned $1.38 per share. That was a penny above the mean estimate among analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call. FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. wants more tests on Arcoxia NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - The Food and Drug Administration told Merck & Co. that it requires further safety and efficacy data before it will approve Arcoxia, the successor drug to now-defunct pain reliever Vioxx, the pharmaceutical maker announced Friday. The news was not unexpected because Merck pulled Vioxx from the market last month after a study showed it doubled patients' risk of heart attacks and strokes. The two products are in the same class of drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors Cox-2 Inhibitors Definition Cox-2 inhibitors are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) which selectively inhibit cyclooxygenase-2. The cyclooxygenases are required for the creation of prostaglandins. . Bristol-Myers Q3 profits fall 16% NEW YORK - Bristol-Myers Squibb Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical corporation, formed by a 1989 merger between pharmaceutical companies Bristol-Myers Company, founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, NY (both were Co.'s third-quarter profits fell 16 percent as the major drug maker struggles with the loss of patent protection on key products but also increases spending on research and development. The company also lowered its full-year guidance Friday to between $1.39 a share and $1.44 a share from between $1.43 a share and $1.48 a share on charges it took during the quarter. It reiterated that patent losses will muzzle muzzle 1. the part of the face supported by the maxillae and nasal bones; the part of a dog's head anterior to the stop and cheeks, containing the nasal passages and bearing the nosepad. Longer in dolichocephalics and practically nonexistent in brachycephalics. the company's growth until 2007. For the quarter, Bristol-Myers earned $758 million, or 38 cents a share, compared with $906 million, or 47 cents a share, a year earlier. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion