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The new chief executive of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is set to shift focus of the company to branded drugs from generics as he imports a successful strategy of making mid-sized deals from Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Jeremy Levin will take the reins at Teva in May in the wake of surprising resignation of Shlomo Yanai after five years at the helm.

“I have a deep philosophy in that medicines are medicines. It does not matter whether they are branded or generic,” Levin said. “The key question is can you make the affordable and can you provide them to patients.”

On Tuesday, Teva’s Nasdaq shares were up 6.5 percent at $42.97.

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Easing immediate fears of a credit crunch, banks gobbled up nearly 490 billion euros in three-year cut-price loans from the European Central Bank recently. However, it is still not clear how much will flow to needy euro zone economies.

Hopes of crisis relief before the year-end had been pinned on a massive uptake of the ECB’s ultra-long and ultra-cheap loans after a string of failed attempts by euro zone leaders to thwart market attacks on the bloc’s weaker members.

The funding should bolster finances of banks and ease the threat of a credit crunch and may tempt them to buy Italian and Spanish bonds, thereby easing the sovereign debt crisis of the currency area.

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A portfolio of 16 office buildings for about $800 million would be purchased by private equity firm Blackstone Group (BX.N), according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.

The buildings, spread across six U.S. cities, are presently owned by a Morgan Stanley real-estate fund that acquired them when it bought Glenborough Realty Trust in 2006.

From Reuters.com:

The real estate fund decided to transfer the remaining buildings to Blackstone rather than repay some $820 million in loans due in December, the paper reported.

Blackstone is talking to lenders to arrange financing for the acquisition, the Journal said.

Blackstone is buying more assets and attracting new money from investors, flexing its muscle as losses pile up at private equity firms. Last month, it agreed to buy 82 suburban office properties for $1.08 billion from Duke Realty Corp (DRE.N).

A request seeking comment was not immediately responded by Blackstone.

Tags: Blackstone, Morgan Stanley, private equity, real estate

The auditors of India’s biggest carrier Jet Airways have issued a warning to the company to raise funds or generate cash flows in the future to meets its obligations, including financial support to its loss-making subsidiary JetLite.

In a report dated Nov. 11, Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Chaturvedi & Shah said raising money is crucial if Jet’s accounts have to be prepared on a “going concern basis” in the future.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

In September, auditors of smaller rival Kingfisher Airlines had warned the carrier needed to infuse funds to continue as a “going concern”.

Jet, which enjoys nearly a quarter of the market share, swung to a net loss in September quarter, compared with a profit a year ago, hurt by rising fuel prices and a forex loss in the quarter.

“Jet is better relative to Kingfisher in terms of financial strength. I definitely think they will make a profit over the time and shore up their capital,” said an analyst with a local brokerage who requested anonymity.

The report was released to the stock exchange on Monday.

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Policymakers in the United States were urged by President Barack Obama to “bite the bullet” and make the compromises needed for a deficit-reduction deal they need to reach this month for avoiding triggering automatic federal spending cuts.

It was time for the bipartisan, 12-member “super committee” to match up prudent spending curbs with tax increases and get to an agreement, according to Obama.

From news.yahoo.com:

“It feels as if people continue to try to stick with their rigid positions rather than solve the problem,” Obama said, also accusing lawmakers of “wanting to jigger the math” to avoid having to make politically unpopular decisions.

“My hope is that over the next several days the congressional leadership on the super committee will go ahead and bite the bullet and do what needs to be done.”

The special congressional committee is assigned the task of finding at least $1.2 trillion in federal budget savings over 10 years, but with a November 23 deadline looming, Republicans and Democrats on the panel have not yet sealed a deal.

“I really believe that all of the ingredients for a good resolution are there. We just need to build the will,” said House of Representatives Democrat James Clyburn, a member of the committee.

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Asian shares inched up while the euro clung to overnight gains on Friday but markets largely stayed within range as investors are awaiting a weekend meeting of European leaders for signs of progress in resolving the region’s debt crisis.

Gold and copper rebounded from the sharp falls of Thursday.

From news.yahoo.com:

European leaders said they did not expect Sunday’s meeting to give an all-cure solution to the euro zone’s debt problems, with regional leaders still sharply divided over how to strengthen a euro zone rescue fund.

France and Germany said in a joint statement on Thursday that the leaders will discuss in detail a comprehensive solution to the euro zone crisis at the summit on Sunday but no decisions will be adopted before a second meeting to be held by Wednesday at the latest.

Paris and Berlin wanted negotiations to start immediately with the private sector for an agreement on the sustainability of Greece’s debt, according to the communique.

“Assets across the board are coming under pressure as it becomes clear that European banks, when faced with a stress test, will likely reduce their assets to strengthen their capital,” said Naohiro Niimura, a partner at research and consulting firm Market Risk Advisory Co.

Tags: debt crisis, euro zone

After euro zone policymakers moved to shore up struggling banks and fend off a financial crisis, Asian stocks rose on Friday and the euro clung to gains from a 2-cent rally.

On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced aggressive liquidity measures to throw a lifeline to lenders who have seen wholesale funding drying up as market confidence ebbed, and the European Union said it would present a plan for a coordinated recapitalization of banks by member states.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

Gold, oil, copper and equities were all on course to post weekly gains on hopes that Europe’s leaders may finally be getting to grips with a two-year-old sovereign debt crisis, although the scale of the task meant caution remained high.

“There are still plenty of problems that face the European financial system,” said Greg Gibbs, strategist at RBS in Sydney. “The risk rally will probably run out to steam in the next week.”

Fears that the crisis is heading inexorably towards a default by Greece — and possibly others — that could trigger turmoil in the banking system have caused a sharp sell-off in riskier assets since late July.

U.S. stocks rose more that 1.5 percent on Thursday and S&P 500 index futures traded in Asia were mildly negative. “No one wants to take a big position ahead of the U.S. jobs report later in case there is a downside surprise,” said Koichi Ogawa, chief portfolio manager at Daiwa SB Investments in Tokyo.

Tags: debt crisis, euro zone, liquidity measures

After Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire at a mass market-friendly $199, Asian technology companies came under pressure on Thursday to slash prices of their tablet computers.

Major Asian tablet makers, from Samsung Electronics to Sony Corp, have ambitious plans to take on Apple but none of them have however been able to gain any significant market share from Apple.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

So far, Samsung has been seen as the most credible challenger to the iPad and some analysts suggest it could lose its No. 2 position to the eagerly anticipated Fire.

The South Korean company’s tablet marketing campaign has also stumbled in recent months due to Apple’s legal attempts to ban Samsung’s tablet sales in Australia, the United States and Germany, over patent infringement, among other claims.

The Kindle Fire, while lacking many of the high-tech bells and whistles common on tablets from cameras to 3G wireless connection, may sound the death knell for a raft of devices based on Google Inc’s Android operating system.

“Amazon’s retail-based business model allows the company to subsidize the device on the premise that consumers will buy more from Amazon, be that physical goods or its digital content,” said Adam Leach, an analyst at research firm Ovum.

Tags: Amazon, Apple, Kindle Fire, marketing campaign, tablet computers