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Johnson & Johnson , the US healthcare group, will in future take more long-term minority stakes and forge alliances with rival pharmaceuticals companies in an effort to share the rising costs and risks of drug development.

Investors are finding encouragement from the latest batch of earnings reports. Stocks rose in early trading Wednesday after a handful of banks, including Morgan Stanley, US Bancorp and Wells Fargo, posted better results for the July-September quarter.

Shares in drugmaker Elan gained as much as 4.5pc in Dublin trading yesterday after the company reported a third-quarter profit and raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast.

State, county and municipal entities across the nation enjoy a privileged position in the debt markets -- the interest they pay is often tax-free and their market is lightly regulated.

Miracles do happen. This 2007 SAP-PM implementation for a bulk biopharmaceutical manufacturer has paid for itself through savings in both material and time.

To appreciate the impact of crisis project management, it's important to understand how the discipline started.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel - are they or aren't they dating? Despite Justin looking rather single the last couple of weeks, usually solo or partying with a bevy of non-Biel babes , the rocky couple was full of cuddles last night.

Elan rose as much as 4.5pc in Dublin trading after the drugmaker reported a third-quarter profit and raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast.

Sales slipped 5% to $15.08 billion, from $15.92 billion. According to a recent poll of analysts by FactSet Research, J&J was seen as posting earnings of $1.13 a share, with revenue of $15.19 billion.

Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with Nursing Spectrum and Gannett Healthcare Group, delivered on its promise to Maryland nurses by raising more than $500,000 at the Promise of Nursing for Maryland gala Sept.

These self-made stars founded companies on our annual list of America's 200 Best Small Companies.

Investors grew cautious Tuesday after quarterly sales at Johnson & Johnson fell short of expectations and an influential analyst stirred worries that bank shares are overheated.

Maybe Wall Street is getting too accustomed to Baxter International beating consensus earnings estimates.

Interpublic Group of Cos. is about to pull the trigger on a merger of its agencies Lowe Worldwide and Deutsch that will do away with the Lowe brand in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Johnson & Johnson Inc., Intel Corp.

Pfizer Inc. and Wyeth have tied the knot in the drug industry's most expensive marriage this year.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are AIG, CIT, Goldman Sachs, J&J, Johnson Controls, Pier 1 and Vanda.

The Dow Jones industrial average has reclaimed 10,000 for the first time in a year.

Doctors may finally be getting the message about dangers associated with fentanyl patches, if Johnson & Johnson 's Q3 2009 earnings are any indication.

Abbott Laboratories said Wednesday it beat its own expectations for the third quarter as sales of its drug Humira continued to climb, along with sales of medical products and nutritional formula for children.

It's likely to be some time before health-care companies begin to enjoy the fruits of any economic recovery, judging by Johnson & Johnson's slight third-quarter revenue miss on Oct.

The major averages pared early losses, brushing off mixed signals from Johnson & Johnson's earnings and Meredith Whitney's downgrade of Goldman Sachs .

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Stock futures turned mostly lower on Tuesday as Johnson & Johnson's third-quarter sales figures disappointed investors, offsetting a lift from higher commodity prices that rose with the weaker U.S. dollar.

Johnson & Johnson , the worlda s largest health products company, said profit rose 1.1 percent as cost-cuts offset declining sales.

In this July 14, 2009 file photo, a box of Johnson & Johnson BAND-AID bandages is shown in Boston.

With a daily "drive for five" and 13-week up cycle complete, poor reactions to strong earnings thus far hint at profit-taking ahead.

Johnson & Johnson - in partnership with Gannett Healthcare Group, publishers of Nursing Spectrum, NurseWeek and Nurse.com - delivered on its promise to Maryland nurses by raising more than $500,000 at the Promise of Nursing for Maryland gala Sept.

Johnson & Johnson, the world's biggest healthcare company and a Dow Jones industrial average component, reports earnings for the third quarter Tuesday morning.

Mitsuo Hirose , the 72-year-old former president of Johnson & Johnson Japan , was charged with tax evasion, according to two Japanese news services.

The march toward peace in the stent wars continues. A couple months ago, we reported that Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic had signed a blockbuster deal that ended all their patent litigation over cardiac stents .

It didn't hire anyone to seek strategic alternatives, but Baxter International Inc.

"Dongle" may sound a bit goofy, but the innocent-seeming technology is emerging as one of the biggest challenges to the mobile telecoms industry in coming years.

It seems that the swine flu pandemic has attracted many large pharmaceutical players towards the vaccine business, the latest being Johnson & Johnson .