14.03.2013
- Vitol, the world's largest oil trading house, has been barred by pricing agency Platts from its daily European "window" naphtha trading session after failing to deliver on time...
19.02.2013
- Top oil trader Vitol is increasingly dominant in European oil markets, taking a stranglehold on Urals crude to the Mediterranean and the naphtha and gas oil markets that rival...
08.01.2013
- China will cut prices of about 400 drugs for respiratory diseases, fever and pain by up to 20% from February, in a move to make medicines, including some products from Pfizer...
14.12.2012
- Medical providers have begun to think more about cost, as well as safety and effectiveness, when they decide on cancer treatments. In the past, pharmaceutical companies could...
14.12.2012
- When the Price is Right - Pressure on margins, strong competition and high quality expectations of customers are typical determinants in the chemical industry. The Chemical Monitor...
14.12.2012
- Companies in the chemical sector have to face a breath-taking list of business pressures today. Worries around the continuous volatility of raw material costs and increasing...
11.12.2012
- Denmark's Novo Nordisk is sizing up a high-price niche market for its drug liraglutide as a weight-loss treatment, with the United States the prime opportunity. The premium-price...
28.11.2012
- Drugmakers - led by GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson - are stepping up efforts to ensure their medicines are available and affordable in poor countries, after being attacked...
