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It was just another manic market day, at least for AstraZeneca.
Shares of the British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company tumbled Thursday after it shared the surprising failure of its drug Wainua to meet its target in a recent clinical trial. AstraZeneca and Ionis Pharmaceuticals said the heart disease treatment didn't outperform the placebo in preventing heart problems in patients with transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy (or ATTR-CM), a rare and potentially fatal disease.
It was a blow ***** ysts weren't expecting, and AstraZeneca's shares fell as much as 10.6% in London, its largest intraday plummet since 2017, per Bloomberg. The company's New York Stock Exchange-listed shares ended Thursday down 5.7%.
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It was just another manic market day, at least for AstraZeneca.
Shares of the British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company tumbled Thursday after it shared the surprising failure of its drug Wainua to meet its target in a recent clinical trial. AstraZeneca and Ionis Pharmaceuticals said the heart disease treatment didn't outperform the placebo in preventing heart problems in patients with transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy (or ATTR-CM), a rare and potentially fatal disease.
It was a blow ***** ysts weren't expecting, and AstraZeneca's shares fell as much as 10.6% in London, its largest intraday plummet since 2017, per Bloomberg. The company's New York Stock Exchange-listed shares ended Thursday down 5.7%.
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