Wednesday, July 25, 2007

UPDATE 3-Glaxo's $25 bln buyback softens Avandia blow

(Reuters) - LONDON, July 25 - GlaxoSmithKline Plc more
than doubled its share buyback programme to 12 billion pounds
on Wednesday, boosting its shares even as sliding
sales of diabetes drug Avandia held back second-quarter profit.




Europe's biggest drugmaker kept its forecast for 2007
earnings growth of 8 to 10 percent at constant currencies, but
signalled this depended on results of a U.S. regulatory review
of Avandia after a study said it raised heart attack risks.


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