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Eli Lilly Stock Slides as Pharma Giant Strikes $2.9 Billion Merida Deal

The stock has tumbled 70% since its June 2024 peak, as the drugmaker has contended with intensifying competition from rival Eli Lilly as well as knockoff versions of its blockbuster Ozempic diabetes and Wegovy weight-loss jabs.

Lilly is suing several US companies that are allegedly selling illegal versions of its weight loss candidate, retatrutide.

Lilly is trying to protect an experimental obesity medicine from unauthorized sellers before regulators decide whether to approve it.

Lilly said the products being sold on the black market are unverified, unapproved, and not worth the risk.

Eli Lilly has filed six new lawsuits against U.S. entities that it alleges are selling a version of the company’s investigational weight-loss drug on the black market.

Ahead of an approval filing, the drugmaker is amping up a fight against sellers who claim to offer versions of its highly anticipated “triple-G” weight loss medicine.

U.S.-traded shares of Novo Nordisk are down more than 6% due to a sales shortfall for its new Wegovy weight-loss pill and a disappointing study outcome for a next-generation weight-loss drug. Overall, the company sees the potential for a full-year sales decline of up to 6%, better than its previous view that sales could drop up to 12%. Novo also disclosed that its experimental drug CagriSema failed to show comparable blood-sugar reduction to Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide in a new study of people with Type 2 diabetes.

Novo Nordisk stock plummeted Tuesday after the obesity kingpin unexpectedly released its second-quarter earnings a day early.

The merger would be one of the biggest pharma deals ever. AstraZeneca’s market capitalization stood at $264 billion as of Friday’s close, while Bristol Myers Squibb had a total valuation of $133 billion.

The telehealth provider shared patient health information with Snap and Meta, a federal complaint says.

Novo Nordisk is also demanding that Eli Lilly pull its ads and pay damages.

Novo alleges that Lilly’s Zepbound advertisements compare the drug’s highest approved dose with lower doses of Wegovy.

June 30 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U. lawmakers has opened national security investigations into whether drugmakers Merck and AbbVie have been involved in clinical trials conducted in China that helped fuel the communist country's military capability, according ‌to letters seen by Reuters.

The pharma company, the first to use generative AI to develop a drug that reached clinical trials, is betting longevity treatments will fuel its next phase of growth.

Dow Jones AI giant Nvidia stock tumbled to a key support level during Tuesday's stock market sell-off. A decisive bounce would be bullish.

Dow Jones futures fell slightly after hours, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The May jobs report is on tap before Friday's open. The stock market saw the Dow Jones jump to a record high, aided by lower oil prices and Treasury yields.

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