The Top 50 Drug Companies of 2019 was recently published by the Pharmaceutical Executive magazine. The rankings are based on the companies’ sales revenues in 2018. US-based Pfizer(PFE) is the world’s top drug maker followed by Roche(RHHBY) and Novartis(NVS) of Switzerland. The Top 50 global pharma companies are listed below: Source: Pharm Executive Disclosure: No …

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The Top 10 Global Medical Device Companies based on their revenues in 2018 are shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Source: ProClinical

The following infographic (part 2) shows a few of the chemical agents that were used in World War I: Click to enlarge Source: Compound Interest

Equity mutual funds pool together money from many investors and invest in a group of stocks. This process in theory is supposed reduce risk to investors especially the risk of owing individual stocks which can blow up. However that is not always the case. Mutual funds also have high risks and they are not necessarily …

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