Rinat, a spinoff of Genentech, had been in a bidding war to partner with one of nine interested pharmaceutical firms for a promising but very early stage drug candidate to treat Alzheimer's.

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Rinat, a spinoff of Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ), had been in a bidding war to partner with one of nine interested pharmaceutical firms for a promising but very early stage drug candidate to treat Alzheimer's.

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But that doesn't prevent the heads of Wall Street firms such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup from rooting for one candidate over another based on expectations of economic performance.

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Instead his plan has ingredients that were introduced in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney, now a Republican presidential candidate: an overhaul of insurance markets, subsidies to help poorer people pay their premiums, taxes on firms that do not provide health-care coverage for their workers, and a requirement that everyone should buy health insurance.

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