Sunday, 22 Jan 2012 | Posted By:
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The world is rapidly aging. A whopping two billion people will be 60 years and older by 2050, more than triple the number in 2000, according the WHO. We've come up with a list of countries with the starkest gap between the number of old and the number of young. Find out which countries have the biggest gap between old and young.
With uncertainty and volatility big issues much like last year, money managers say go for high dividend-paying stocks and sectors such as healthcare, consumer staples and utilities.
Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012 | Posted By:
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Chief executives at some of the biggest U.S. biotech and pharmaceutical companies are at the annual JPMorgan health care conference in San Francisco. Here's what some of them told CNBC on Tuesday.
Philips Electronics warned of soft fourth quarter profits due to weak European consumer markets that is leading to charges for inventory it cannot shift.
Tuesday, 27 Dec 2011 | Posted By:
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Pharmaceutical giants’ profits could take a "double-dip" hit next year from patent expirations on blockbuster drugs and President Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms, according to a report from CreditSights, a credit market research firm.
Today, George Mason University expert and Obama approved GOP 2010 trustee for Medicare and Social Security Charles Blahous is today releasing a study that challenges the conventional wisdom that the health-care law, which calls for an expensive expansion of coverage for the uninsured beginning in 2014, will nonetheless reduce deficits by raising taxes and cutting payments to Medicare providers.... Read More