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August 5 (Reuters) - European shares rose on Wednesday as investors monitored corporate earnings and diplomatic efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war and reopen the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
The Danish drugmaker continues to rely on the success of semaglutide, branded as Wegovy for weight loss and Ozempic for diabetes.
The Danish drugmaker said annual sales and operating profit should fall less than it previously expected following a boost in the second quarter.
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One year since becoming Novo Nordisk’s chief executive, Mike Doustdar is betting on the “phenomenal” sales of its weight-loss pill, new drugs...
The monthly jobs report comes out Friday. Before that, Elon Musk’s SpaceX will post its first earnings report as a listed company. Also reporting: Walt Disney; tech companies Palantir and Advanced Micro Devices; ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft; private-equity firms Apollo, Carlyle and TPG; and fast-food chains McDonald's and Wendy’s.
Investors who had hopes that Novo Nordisk (NVO) could succeed outside of weight-loss drugs were disappointed on Friday, July 31. The Danish drugmaker said its experimental heart drug Ziltivekimab failed the main goal of a large late-stage trial, and the stock fell fast. Novo has spent 2026 trying ...
Friday’s preliminary injunction request escalates legal proceedings initiated earlier this week.
Novo Nordisk said it asked a U.S. court to preliminarily halt rival Eli Lilly from advertising weight-loss drugs, days after accusing the Indianapolis drugmaker of using deceptive advertising to mislead consumers in a lawsuit. Friday’s preliminary injunction request, filed in the District of New Jersey, escalates legal proceedings initiated earlier this week. Novo has now asked the court to stop Eli Lilly from advertising its GLP-1 drugs while the lawsuit proceeds.
<body><p>STORY: :: Novo Nordisk claims misleading ads in Eli Lilly weight-loss drug lawsuit</p><p>:: July 21, 2026</p><p>:: Maggie Fick, European Pharma Industry Correspondent</p><p>"Novo Nordisk sued rival Eli Lilly in a U.S. federal court on Tuesday, accusing the U.S. drugmaker of false advertising and claiming its weight-loss medicines outperform Novo's drugs." //</p><p>"Novo is alleging in its suit that Lilly's advertisements compare weight-loss results of about 50 pounds for its drug Zepbound with about 33 pounds for Wegovy, even though no head-to-head clinical trial has compared the highest approved doses of the medicines."</p><p>"Pharmaceutical companies regularly sue each other over claims related to patent infringement, for example, but false advertising suits, such as the one filed today, are less common."</p><p>"Novo Nordisk was first to market with its weight-loss injection Wegovy several years ago, but it later lost the lead to Eli Lilly, after that company launched a rival injection called Zepbound in the United States. Last year, Novo replaced its CEO and was forced to issue multiple profit warnings as it fell further behind Eli Lilly in this really competitive and booming obesity drug market, which analysts expect to be worth more than $100 billion by 2030. This year, Novo has actually sort of landed a counterpunch with its oral Wegovy pill. It was able to launch that drug ahead of Eli Lilly. Lilly has, in April, launched its own pill, a weight-loss pill. But Novo has managed to keep up strong sales even since the launch of Lilly's pill."</p><p>"Both companies report quarterly results in the next couple of weeks."</p><p>:: Novo Nordisk</p><p>:: Eli Lilly</p><p>The Danish company filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleging Lilly violated federal and state false advertising and unfair competition laws, including the Lanham Act, through nationwide advertising campaigns for obesity drug Zepbound and diabetes treatment Mounjaro.</p><p>Novo alleges Lilly compared the highest approved doses of its medicines with lower doses of Novo's Wegovy and Ozempic while omitting newer, higher-dose versions that Novo says deliver greater weight loss.</p><p>But Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly said it stands firmly behind its ads, which are based on the results of its SURMOUNT-5 trial. That trial — completed in 2024 — compared patients on 10 mg or 15 mg of Lilly's Zepbound to patients on 1.7 mg or 2.4 mg doses of Wegovy. The FDA approved a 7.2 mg dose of Wegovy in March of this year.</p></body>
All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Tuesday, as investors focused on so
Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) has filed a federal lawsuit against Eli Lilly, alleging that its rival’s advertising campaigns for blockbuster GLP-1 obesity and diabetes drugs mislead consumers about the effectiveness of competing treatments. The complaint, filed on July 21, 2026, in the US District...
Agios Pharmaceuticals dropped its next-generation sickle cell drug Tuesday after a failed Phase 2 study. Agios stock tumbled.
Investing.com -- The clash between pharma titans Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly just escalated from the pharmacy counter to the courtroom. Novo Nordisk Inc. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Eli Lilly and Company and Lilly USA, LLC, alleging multiple violations of federal and state false advertising and unfair competition laws under the Lanham Act. The lawsuit takes aim at Lilly’s aggressive direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising campaigns for its blockb
The maker of Ozempic and Wegovy says its competitor is misleading consumers by citing outdated weight-loss data in advertisements.
By Maggie Fick LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk said on Tuesday it was suing rival Eli Lilly in U.S. federal court, accusing the U.S. drugmaker of false advertising in claiming its weight-loss
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Novo Nordisk has accused arch-rival Eli Lilly of peddling false claims about its weight-loss products in advertising campaigns, marking the latest...
Since its obesity pill Foundayo hit the market in April, Lilly has captured about 11% of the prescription volume for new pills, according to the latest weekly data. Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill, which launched in January, commands the rest. It is a remarkable turn of events for the near $80 billion anti-obesity market, among the hottest in the industry.
By Rishika Sadam July 9 (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk launched its weekly basal insulin injection, Awiqli, in India on Thursday, aiming to compete with daily-dose options on the market.
July 9 (Reuters) - Shares of Dr Reddy's Laboratories fell as much as 6.5% on Thursday, after the Indian drugmaker said it is delaying commercial supplies of semaglutide due to an issue related to the
Eli Lilly shares hit a record high Tuesday after IPO stock Kailera Therapeutics posted lackluster test results for its weight-loss pill.
July 7 (Reuters) - The weight-loss drug market is booming, with biotech firms racing to capture a slice of a fast-growing sector dominated by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
Medicare is now covering weight-loss drugs for some seniors, in a win for patients. For Wall Street, the math is trickier.
Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will gain access to obesity drugs for the first time starting Wednesday under CMS’ temporary Bridge program, a federal initiative designed to expand GLP-1 obesity drug coverage for eligible seniors at a $50 monthly copay. The...
Earnings are coming up for Nike as the company tries to engineer a turnaround, but Nike stock continues to plumb 52-week lows.
June 19 (Reuters) - European shares inched higher on Friday, aided by gains in energy and healthcare stocks as investors remained cautious after U.S.-Iran negotiations to end the Middle conflict
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