[ad_1] RAHWAY, N.J. & NUTLEY, N.J. – Merck (NSE:) & Co., Inc. (NYSE:) and Eisai Co., Ltd. (TYO:) have announced the latest outcomes from their Phase 3 LEAP-015 trial, which evaluated the efficacy of the combination therapy KEYTRUDA and LENVIMA for patients with advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma. The combination therapy showed a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and objective response rate compared to standard chemotherapy. However, it did not achieve a meaningful increase in overall survival. The trial’s dual primary endpoints were progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), with objective response rate (ORR) as a key secondary endpoint. The…
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[ad_1] Marketers are coming off of what they felt like was a pretty successful year last year, which is a good feeling. An even better feeling? Heading into 2025 expecting bigger revenues and bigger marketing budgets — a lot of which marketers will put toward influencer marketing. That’s what a Digiday+ Research survey of 42 marketer professionals conducted in the fourth quarter of 2024 found. Digiday’s survey found an overwhelming optimism for 2025 among marketers: 84% of marketer pros told Digiday they agree that they’re optimistic about their companies’ prospects this year. It’s likely that a big reason for that…
[ad_1] DriveWealth, a leading financial technology platform providing Brokerage-as-a-Service, has unveiled its partnership with Moment Technology Inc. (“Moment”) to expand its fixed-income asset class offering. This development marks a significant step toward expanding retail investor access to the bond market by eliminating the existing $200,000 minimum investment threshold of many international bonds. Through its API suite, DriveWealth simplifies and accelerates the onboarding process for its partners, enabling them to roll out bond investment capabilities quickly and seamlessly. This fixed-income offering is officially live with BTG Pactual US Capital LLC, an affiliate of Banco BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images A Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) can be started at any stage of life — even for a baby. For the 2024/25 tax year, the Junior SIPP allowance is £3,600, which includes government tax relief. As such, contributions of up to £2,880 annually can be made, with the government adding £720 in pension tax relief. This makes it an attractive option for long-term savings. Why start so young? Starting a pension early harnesses the power of compounding, where investments grow exponentially over time as returns generate further returns. The earlier contributions begin, the more time there…
[ad_1] For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThe Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, the highest in 17 years, signalling efforts to normalise monetary policy in response to persistent inflation and increasing wages.The central bank raised the policy rate to “around 0.5 per cent” by a vote of 8-1, concluding a two-day policy meeting on Friday. Toyoaki Nakamura was the only board member to dissent against the decision.The…
[ad_1] By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have acted with stunning speed to begin removing or sidelining hundreds of government workers, while he has also sought to give himself the power to fire hundreds of thousands more. The Republican president has been in office less than a week but the wrecking ball he has already taken to parts of the U.S. government has sent shock waves through much of America’s federal bureaucracy. At the National Security Council 160 staffers have been sent home. About 20 senior career attorneys at the Justice Department were…
[ad_1] Students at the University of Maryland are fighting to get to the top of Michael McMillan’s class waitlists. No, he’s not lecturing on a flashy new topic like artificial intelligence or Taylor Swift, he’s teaching personal finance—and students are more interested in the subject than ever. More than half of all Gen Zers are entering adulthood without any formal financial education, and it’s causing real generational financial trauma, according to a recent study. McMillan, who is an associate clinical professor at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, says parents are in part to blame. “Parents are either…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The last year brought more disappointment for the Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) share price. Despite the occasional flash of excitement, it’s slumped more than 6% in the past 12 months. Sadly, this isn’t a one-off. Shares in the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager are down 25% over five years. It’s not alone in this. Other FTSE financials have struggled amid higher inflation, rising interest rates and wider stock market volatility. Yet I still see Legal & General as a brilliant investment, thanks to its blockbuster dividend. The shares currently yield 8.6%, more than…
[ad_1] By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand and China will work together to combat fast-growing networks of illegal call centres along the Thai border with Myanmar and Cambodia, often staffed by trafficked workers, that aim to defraud people in phone and online scams. Southeast Asia – especially border areas between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia – has become a hub for telecom and other online fraud since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the United Nations, which says hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to work in scam centres. Thai police said on Friday that…
[ad_1] “The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since that Republican president uttered it before an assembly of newspaper editors a century ago.But the notion that the business of America is business was on conspicuous display at President Trump’s inauguration. It may be the chief reason for heightened optimism about the stock and bond markets.Plenty of worried readers have been writing in — asking how, in broad strokes, they ought to deploy their money during the second Trump presidency. It is both a pressing problem and an eternal…