21 May 2021 | 16:35pm
StockMarketWire.com - The FTSE 100 closed yet another turbulent week above the 7,000 mark but broadly flat on the day despite US stocks starting Friday on the front foot.
By 4.30pm UK time the S&P 500 was up 0.3% at 4,171.64.
Pharma giant AstraZeneca said its Covid-19 vaccine had been granted special approval for emergency use in Japan for active immunisation of individuals aged 18 years and older. Its share price dipped 0.2% to £81.16.
Real estate investment trust SERGO has announced an eight-year, €500 million (£431 million) senior unsecured green bond issue for the SERGO European Logistics Partnership (SELP) joint venture. It was 0.4% lower at £10.28.
17 May 2021 | 08:06am
StockMarketWire.com - Diagnostics group Novacyt said its Covid-19 testing products had been included in a UK framework for identifying variants of the disease.
The company s SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction genotyping portfolio had been included in the NHS England Framework for detecting variants of concern.
Novacyt also announced the launch of two new PCR assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.
At 8:06am: [LON:NCYT] Novacyt S.A. share price was 0p at 897p
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