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Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015

Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, May 7, 2015

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Airing on Thursday, May 6, 2015: First up, we check the pressure in the global stock market. Alexion—a biotech company with a single drug company— is buying Synageva, a biotech company with a single drug on the market. Yet, they’re two of many biotech companies that are betting on a business in which they develop a drug for a rare disease and charge a ton for it. Next,  voters go to the polls in a general election in Britain today. Inequality has been a key theme of the campaign. It has been getting some traction from one policy in particular: a plan to close a tax loophole. 

 

 

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Voters head to the polls in Britain today

May 7, 2015
What impact does the economy has on the outcome of this day?

Young money: how kids start their startups

May 7, 2015
They conceive, plan and pitch in just three days.

One rare-disease biotech company buys another

May 7, 2015
Alexion, which has one drug on the market, is purchasing Synageva, which has none.

PODCAST: Big merger in the pharmaceutical industry

May 7, 2015
Drug company acquisition and inequality in the British election

Airing on Thursday, May 6, 2015: First up, we check the pressure in the global stock market. Alexion—a biotech company with a single drug company— is buying Synageva, a biotech company with a single drug on the market. Yet, they’re two of many biotech companies that are betting on a business in which they develop a drug for a rare disease and charge a ton for it. Next,  voters go to the polls in a general election in Britain today. Inequality has been a key theme of the campaign. It has been getting some traction from one policy in particular: a plan to close a tax loophole.