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Pfizer’s already beaten Ed Miliband. Now it just needs to offer the right price

Plus: Our state-owned railways, and the great Chinese cheese war

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

Pfizer will almost certainly have to offer more than its second bid of £50 a share for rival drug giant AstraZeneca, but the American predator seems to be winning the game of spin so far. For a start, Pfizer chief Ian Read turns out to be a Scottish-born graduate of Imperial College London who has spent his entire career with the company.

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