Actelion Ltd. Sales Rise Ahead of Anticipated Drug Approval

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Actelion, Europe’s largest biotech company, confirmed its full-year outlook on Thursday ahead of a widely anticipated approval of its big drug hope Opsumit by U.S. health regulators later this week. Nine month sales of its main product Tracleer, a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), rose 3 percent to 1.138 billion Swiss francs ($1.24 billion). Net profit was 105 million francs in the third quarter, beating analysts’ forecasts of 88.5 million.

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