Bloomberg Hospitals are going into overdrive in the final hours before they receive the first US shipments of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, ensuring they are ready for the final payoff from months of planning. “It’s very exciting,” Fran Hixson, director of clinical quality at Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy Health, said in an interview. “We’ve learned along the way ...

Bloomberg Stocks started off the week on a bullish note as investors took comfort from further stimulus bill negotiations and the impending deployment of the first vaccine in the US S&P 500 futures gained about 0.6%, with the first deliveries of the Pfizer Inc-BioNTech SE vaccine in the US due to arrive on Monday. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is ...

Bloomberg India’s smaller stocks are beating their larger peers for the first time in three years, and some strategists say that outperformance will likely continue at least through next year. The Nifty Midcap 100 Index has climbed 20% this year, and the Nifty Smallcap 100 Index has advanced 17%, outpacing the 11% gain in the large-cap NSE Nifty 50 Index. ...