Novartis unit Sandoz starts trading at 24 Swiss francs after completing spinoff

[ad_1] Novartis said in August that it plans to spin off its generics unit Sandoz to sharpen its focus on its patented prescription medicines. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Novartis on Wednesday completed the spinoff of its generics and biosimilars business Sandoz, whose shares began trading at 24 Swiss francs in the early minutes of the company’s debut on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The Swiss drugmaker initially announced intentions to spin off the business…

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Trading Brittney Griner for Russia’s Viktor Bout

[ad_1] “I never meant to hurt anybody,” Brittney Griner told a Russian judge during her sentencing hearing last week. “I made an honest mistake. And I hope that, in your ruling, that it doesn’t end my life here.” Griner’s been in the custody of Russian authorities since February 17 when she was detained at a Moscow airport by customs officials who say she was in possession of vape cartridges containing less than a gram of…

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