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By Barbara Kollmeyer Order Reprints Text size If Western European countries deregulate and adopt e-prescriptions, the market could see additional value of €30 billion. Getty Images The next big thing for investors? Try online prescriptions in Europe, a market that Bank of America estimates will be worth €47 billion ($57 billion) by 2030, from €11 billion in 2020. That is a 10-year annual compound growth rate (CAGR) of 16%. “We estimate the total pharmacy market in Western Europe (ex U.K.) was worth €193 billion in 2020, and is growi...

By Callum Keown Order Reprints Text size Longer-term winners included luxury goods and renewables, which Goldman Sachs analysts said would continue to outperform Getty Images The European equity recovery can continue in 2021 along with the rise of renewables, while the rotation into Value stocks is likely to keep going, according to The pan-European Stoxx 600 index has rallied 20% since October and trades at a 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio of 17.9, which Goldman analysts said was a high outside the Tech bubble era. However, they sa...

Order Reprints Print Article GameStop gave investors betting on the struggling videogame retailer good news and bad news on Monday. The stock, for now, seems fixed on the former. The company (ticker: GME) reached a deal with Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen’s RC Ventures. Cohen, as well as former Chewy executives Alan Attal and Jim Grube, will join the company's board, now at 13 members. Cohen holds 13% of GameStop shares, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lizabeth... Close GameStop Will Add Activist Investors to the Board. The Stock Shot Up. Gam...

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to provide protection against the new highly contagious U.K. and South African variants, according to a preliminary study.

By Steve Goldstein Order Reprints Text size Gresie Elfin Siahaan holding her newborn baby Bellvania Magdalena Sianturi at the RSIA Tambak maternity clinic in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 11, 2020. AFP via Getty Images There is a looming demographic problem being created by the coronavirus pandemic. As unfortunate as they are, it isn’t the deaths—some 361,000 in the U.S. and 1.9 million globally, according to the tracker from Johns Hopkins University. Rather, it is the declining birthrate. James Pomeroy, a London-based economist for HSBC, say...