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Novo Nordisk sinks 15% after weight loss drug fails to match Eli Lilly’s in trial

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Novo Nordisk stock fell as much as 15% Monday after it said its next-generation weight loss drug didn’t meet its key goal of showing that it wasn’t inferior to Eli Lilly’s rival drug, in the latest blow to the Danish drugmaker, whose stock is trading at a multi-year low after a series of disappointing announcements.

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Novo Nordisk’s actions have plummeted this Monday to 16% in the Copenhagen Stock Exchange after it became known that CagriSema, his new experimental anti-obesity drug, has recorded failures in trials, a situation that reduces the impact on the weight loss market against its leading US competitor Eli Lilly, whose actions shot up 5%. The Danish firm’s drug produced a lower weight loss than its rival’s treatments. Read more: Novo Nordisk prepares f…

The Danish pharmaceutical company falls by about 15% in the patch after presenting the data from the trials of its new generation drug for obesity (CagriSema), which do not improve the weight loss figures offered by the rival drug Lilly (Zepbound). Read

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