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☆ Novo Nordisk market cap surpasses Tesla on new obesity pill trial data
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Liselotte Sabroe | AFP | Getty ImagesWegovy obesity drug maker Novo Nordisk surpassed Tesla in market value, after fresh early trial data showed positive results for its new experimental weight loss pill. Novo Nordisk is now the 12th most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of $604 billion — ahead of Tesla's $569 billion, according to FactSet data. 8The uptick of Thursday extends a months-long rally for Novo Nordisk, as excitement grows around weight loss drugs and their potential wider applications. The early amycretin data marks a fresh milestone for Novo Nordisk, potentially offering a more effective and less intrusive alternative to its already widely successful injection-based Wegovy and Ozempic drugs. Wegovy showed weight loss of 6% in a 12-week trial, while Ozempic is a diabetes treatment.

Persons: Liselotte Sabroe, Eli Lilly, amycretin, Martin Holst Lange, Lange Organizations: AFP, Getty, Novo Nordisk, Tesla, Microsoft Corp MSFT, Apple Inc, AAPL, NVIDIA Corp NVDA Technology, Saudi Aramco, SA Energy, Inc, AMZN Consumer, GOOGL, Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, Company LLY Healthcare, Broadcom Inc, AVGO Technology, Taiwan Semiconductor TSM, Novo Nordisk NVO, Finance, JPMorgan Chase JPM, Reuters Locations: Bagsvaerd, Copenhagen, Denmark, Danish, London, Saudi, Mar, Europe

☆ U.S. banks point to resilient but slowing economy, flag risks ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. consumers still have a healthy balance sheet, the banks said, but warned spending was slowing and there had been a modest deterioration in some consumer debt. "The U.S. economy continues to be resilient," JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said. Investors have worried that high interest rates could push the economy into a recession, but the outlook remains uncertain. Wells CEO Charlie Scharf said the range of scenarios for the economy should narrow over the next few quarters. For now, the economy is performing better than many expected but will likely continue slowing.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo WFC.N, Wells, Jamie Dimon, Jeremy Barnum, Charlie Scharf, Larry Fink, Wells Fargo, Scharf, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Niket Nishant, Noor Zainab Hussain, Mehnaz Yasmin, Manya, Nupur Anand, Saeed Azhar, Megan Davies, Paritosh Bansal, Nick Zieminski Organizations: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Citi, Federal Reserve, CNBC, Wells, Bank of America, Manya Saini, Thomson Locations: Wells, U.S, Bengaluru, New York

☆ Take Five: An uneasy calm
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Kazuo Ueda takes over the helm at the Bank of Japan while U.S. bank earnings kick off and Switzerland's parliament debates the UBS-Credit Suisse tie up. 1/ BANKS' BOTTOM LINESThe uneasy calm that has settled over the U.S. banking sector after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will be tested as U.S. financials kick off their earnings season. S&P 500 earnings are predicted to fall 5.0%, I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv showed. Reuters Graphics5/ SPRING MEETINGSPolicymakers and investors head to Washington for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring meetings starting on Monday. It will be the first meeting for Ajay Banga, U.S. nominee to run the World Bank and sole contender for the job.

☆ Another big rate hike is coming. Lather. Rinse. Repeat
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

As such, experts' forecasts for the Fed's key short-term rate after the November meeting range from 3.5% to 4%. In other words, the Fed's rate hikes could ultimately lead to the economy cooling off more than the central bank would like. Too many big rate hikes risk "sending the economy into a mild recession," Chubb said. What's more, other central banks, mainly the European Central Bank, are likely to step up the pace and size of rate increases as well. "Major central banks still have work to do on inflation, including the Fed and the ECB.

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