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Glaxo said to settle Avandia cases on eve of vote

GAITHERSBURG, Md (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to pay $460 million to settle thousands of lawsuits over its Avandia diabetes pill, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, on the eve of a crucial vote by U.S. experts on whether the pill should be withdrawn due to heart risks.

Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the settlements, said the U.S. review was a factor in the decision by Glaxo officials to start negotiating with lawyers for former Avandia users.It said Britain-based Glaxo would settle about 10,000 suits for an average of $46,000 each. A Glaxo spokeswoman declined to comment. Plaintiffs’ lawyers reached by Reuters also could not confirm a settlement.Shares of Glaxo closed up 1.7 percent in New York trading, easily beating a 0.2 percent increase in the S&P pharmaceutical index.Avandia’s U.S. sales were just 1.5 percent of Glaxo’s 2009 revenues,Abercrombie And Fitch Mens For UK, but investors fear withdrawal from the market could spark further patient lawsuits.Scientific experts assembled by the FDA are holding a two-day meeting to sort through sharply conflicting data and opinions on whether Avandia causes heart attacks.They are due to vote on Wednesday on recommendations ranging from ranging from keeping the drug on the market to recommending a withdrawal. Restrictions on use or beefing up a 2007 heart warning are among other choices.Because the FDA asked panelists to select only one of the five options, there may be no clear majority.The debate on Avandia’s safety has raged since warnings were placed on the drug in 2007 saying some research shows a link with a higher heart attack risk but the data is “inconclusive.”Two U.S. senators released internal company documents on Tuesday they said showed Glaxo sought to downplay scientific findings about Avandia’s safety as far back as 2000, shortly after the drug was approved.Added pressure on Avandia is coming from the European Medicines Agency, which has launched a new review into the drug’s risks and benefits.DIVIDED FDAFDA staff are deeply divided over the safety of Avandia, also known as rosiglitazone, and the agency has thrown the issue to the expert panel to untangle.Dr. David Graham, an FDA reviewer who has pushed for Avandia’s withdrawal for years, said the agency applies different standards when deciding whether to approve a drug versus determining risk after a medicine is on the market.Graham said the Record study relied on by Glaxo to show no increased heart attack risk from Avandia compared to older diabetes drugs would not pass muster for an approval. “You wouldn’t even hear about it because it’s garbage,” he said.Dr. Ellis Unger, a deputy director of drug evaluation said he found Record’s results “pretty reassuring” on heart safety.But he added it was up to the expert panel to decide if Record was legitimate.”Can we trust the sponsor (Glaxo) with the results of Record? I think that is something the committee is going to need to think about,” Unger said.Panelists asked some questions of Tuesday’s presenters but gave little hint on how they were leaning.”It’s hard to say if GSK was helped or hurt by today’s events,” said Ira Loss, an analyst who follows the FDA for Washington Analysis.GLAXO DEFENDSGlaxo officials defended Avandia before the advisers saying diabetes was a serious disease that needed multiple treatment options to control blood sugar and prevent devastating complications including amputations and blindness.”When used appropriately, (Avandia) has a positive benefit/risk profile and should remain a treatment for type 2 diabetes,” said Dr. Murray Stewart, a Glaxo vice president for drug research and development.For the FDA, the case is seen as a test of how the agency will handle major controversies under Democratic President Barack Obama. Officials are facing heavy pressure from consumer groups and some lawmakers who say the FDA fumbled decisions in past administrations and failed to protect the public.Some FDA staff see the Glaxo drug as more dangerous to the heart than Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s rival diabetes pill, Actos, with no unique benefits.An ongoing study comparing Avandia and Actos could provide a more definitive answer but critics argue it is wrong to wait years for those results. They say findings against Avandia are strong enough now to warrant the drug’s removal.An outspoken critic, Dr. Steven Nissen, said there was enough evidence to conclude Actos was a safer option and Avandia offered no benefits over other diabetes drugs.”Continued marketing of rosiglitazone cannot be medically or ethically justified,Coach Buckle Purses,Of The Nature of Thingsaop,” said Nissen,BP collected over 15,000 barrels of Gulf oil Tuesday_8474, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, and the committee’s top Republican, Charles Grassley, said they were very concerned Glaxo appeared to have failed to tell regulators about adverse findings in a timely manner.Several documents released by the senators referred to a Glaxo study finding a potential heart advantage for Takeda’s Actos over Avandia.Glaxo said the documents were being taken out of context and represented only a small percent of the documents provided to plaintiffs’ attorneys in Avandia product liability litigation.(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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Israel ruled out Iran strike in 2005: Wikileaks

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli defence officials ruled out a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities as early as 2005,Abercrombie and fitch mens jeans, US diplomatic cables leaked to whistleblower site WikiLeaks show, an Israeli newspaper said Sunday.

The documents given to the Haaretz newspaper by WikiLeaks detail conversations between US diplomats and Israeli defence officials, which suggested the Jewish state did not plan to target Iran's controversial nuclear programme.

One December 2005 cable said Israeli officials had indicated there was "no chance of a military attack being carried out on Iran," Haaretz reported.

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Levite "said that most Israeli officials do not believe a military solution is possible," Haaretz quoted the telegram as saying.

"They believe Iran has learned from Israel's attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor (in 1981) and has dispersed the components of its nuclear programme throughout Iran, with some elements in places that Israel does not know about."

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Along with much of the international community, Israel accuses Iran of using its nuclear energy programme to mask a weapons drive. Iran denies the charge, saying the programme is purely for civilian energy and medical purposes.

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Canada’s TD Bank bets $6 billion on U.S. auto lending

TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto-Dominion Bank is buying Chrysler Financial for $6.3 billion, the second time in a week that a Canadian lender has placed a big bet on the U.S. economic recovery.

Tuesday’s cash deal, which includes about $400 million in goodwill, will make Canada’s No. 2 bank one of North America’s biggest bank-owned auto lenders. The bank won’t issue any stock to fund its purchase from Cerberus Capital Management,Abercrombie And Fitch uk outlet store, a feature that helped push TD shares up nearly 4 percent.”The TD Bank acquisition of Chrysler Financial is an example of what can happen when foreign banks are financially strong, flush with cash, and want to expand into the lucrative U.S. market,” said Mark Williams, a risk-management expert at the Boston University School of Management.”U.S. retail banks, such as Bank of America, have plenty to fear. The Canadian bankers are upon us.”This deal follows Friday’s $4.1 billion purchase of Wisconsin-based Marshall & Ilsley Corp by Canada’s No. 4 lender Bank of Montreal, although BMO irked the market by issuing $800 million in stock to fund its deal.BETTING ON CARSThe TD deal reflects a growing belief that car sales will help fuel the U.S. economy as the auto sector recovers from its 2008-2009 meltdown.The acquisition also illustrates the strength of Canada’s banks, which emerged from the crisis in much better shape than their U.S. counterparts. With limited growth prospects at home, some are looking to the United States to deploy their capital.”I think you’ll see a blending of the Canadian and U.S. banking systems over the next few years. The Canadian banks can’t expand in Canada anymore,” said Richard Bove, bank analyst at Rochdale Securities.Chrysler Financial was the automaker’s lending arm, although last year’s U.S. government-sponsored restructuring of Chrysler and General Motors reined in its operations.Cerberus will retain about $1 billion in Chrysler Financial assets, according to a source close to the private equity fund.The source said that means Cerberus is close to breaking even on the Chrysler transaction as a whole, which would make it the only investor involved in the U.S. auto bailouts that didn’t take a loss.TD said the auto financing business will complement its U.S. East Coast retail banking network, helping to jump-start loan growth as a fragile recovery gains traction.Jefferson Harralson, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods,buy Abercrombie and fitch mens, said he expects banks to get more involved in auto lending.”In previous recessions, you worried about credit cards and auto loans, not the mortgages. This time that’s been reversed.”U.S. auto sales dropped to a 27-year low of 10.4 million vehicles in 2009, but are expected to rebound to nearly 11.5 million this year in a recovery that could run beyond 2012.TD officials said they expect auto lending to grow to $900 billion over the next three years, from $700 billion now.TD said the Chrysler Financial purchase should not affect 2011 earnings and will add about $100 million to adjusted 2012 earnings. It may help it exceed its goal of $1.6 billion annual earnings from its U.S. unit in three years.TD first entered the U.S. market in 2005. It now has a network of about 1,300 branches and it owns about 46 percent of online broker TD Ameritrade.BIGGER LOAN BOOKTD already has an auto loan book of C$10.4 billion in Canada and $3.3 billion in the United States. It aims to book $1 billion a month in new loans by 2013.It will compete against Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Bank of America and Fifth Third Bank, as well as other major U.S. banks.Chrysler Financial has $7.5 billion in loans and leases outstanding, as well as a U.S. platform with about 2,000 dealer relationships that will establish TD’s national loan presence.”Because we generate so many more deposits than we generate loans (at the U.S. branch bank), we’ve always said if we could find the right asset generating franchise, we would buy it,” TD CEO Ed Clark said in an interview.Chrysler Financial CEO Tom Gilman is staying on with the company and will run the bank’s auto business out of TorontoIn 2007, Cerberus bought Chrysler for $7.4 billion from Daimler AG in a deal financed by a host of Wall Street’s marquee investment banks including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. The automaker owns the Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler brands.Surging oil prices and a slump in sales in 2008 hobbled Chrysler, which relied on trucks and sport utility vehicles for the majority of its sales.Chrysler’s automotive arm filed for bankruptcy funded by the U.S. government and is now managed by Fiat SpA. Cerberus maintained a controlling stake in Chrysler Financial, a separate entity that was not involved in the bankruptcy.Some of the financing company’s operations were taken over by Ally Financial Inc, the auto and mortgage lender formerly known as GMAC.TD’s Toronto-listed stock rose C$2.64 to close at C$73.16.(Additional reporting by Megan Davies, Kevin Krolicki, Deepa Seetharaman, and Joseph Rauch; Editing by Frank McGurty and Janet Guttsman)

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