Replies to post #103440 on Biotech Values

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Cross-town rival Novartis, which recently shrugged off drug-price cuts across Europe to raise its full-year sales goal on the back of strong demand for its newest products, said it had no need to make similar cost cuts. “If it were necessary, [but] it isn't,” Novartis Chairman Daniel Vasella told Reuters at a business event in Basel when asked if Novartis would take similar savings measures to Roche's.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNLDE68203L20100903