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  • Evening Standard

    FTSE 100 Live 17 June: Index seen higher, Japan's Nikkei 225 slides 2%

    London had regained its crown as Europe’s biggest stock market, just two years after losing that status to Paris. French stocks have suffered from the shock election called by President Emmanuel Macron last week which hit bank shares in particular. Meanwhile, London shares after a long period in the doldrums are showing renewed signs of life with bankers saying clients are looking to get deals moving again, leading to floats and share price boosts.

  • Reuters

    AstraZeneca Imfinzi plus chemotherapy gets US nod for certain type of endometrial cancer

    The approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration came after a late stage trial showed that Imfinzi along with chemotherapy drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel, then followed by Imfinzi by itself, reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 58% in specific endometrial cancer patients, compared to chemotherapy alone, the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker said on Monday. "Immunotherapy in combination with chemotherapy is emerging as a new standard of care in this setting, and the approval of Imfinzi offers an important new option for patients with mismatch repair deficient disease," Dave Fredrickson, executive vice-president of the company's oncology business unit, said in a statement.

  • HuffPost

    Jake Tapper Haunts GOP Senator With Old Trump Take: 'That Didn't Age Very Well'

    The CNN host reminded Sen. Tom Cotton of his prediction for how the former president would react to the 2020 election results.