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Outlook 2025: Will Geopolitics Dampen Pharma’s Comeback Party?

 
• By Jo Shorthouse

The financial macroenvironment may be looking more favorable for 2025 but will pharma growth be muted by elements beyond its control? In Vivo discusses the headwinds and drivers for pharma in the coming 12 months.

This year has posed substantial challenges for global markets: a prolonged period of high interest rates, ongoing geopolitical instability, democratic uncertainty, and an unprecedented number of national elections affected nearly half of the world’s population. The pharmaceutical industry has responded to this macroenvironment with less dealmaking, instead cherry-picking necessary partnerships while it waits to see how geopolitical upheaval shapes the environment.

While 2024 started out in dynamic fashion for dealmaking, with Novo Nordisk parent company Novo Holdings announcing in February its intention to buy Catalent for $16.5bn to supplement its GLP-1...

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