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It's blue skies for Novo Nordisk as the maker of Ozempik and Wagoi

reports strong demand for its blockbuster drugs.

This morning Novo talked about a quadrupling of new patients starting Wagovi on a weekly

basis in the United States.

Secondly, growth is going to come from really continuing to add data to the library for these drugs that you not only lose weight

but you have benefits across all sorts of other health outcomes.

Plus ExxonMobil reaches an agreement to close its mega deal for Pioneer and cue the music as

Tic-Toc and Universal Music Make Nice.

It's Thursday, May 2nd.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. We are exclusively reporting that Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore's collapsed Francis

Scott Key Bridge, is preparing to make a 350 million dollar payout to the state of Maryland, choosing to pay the full amount of the coverage

quickly rather than waiting for rebuilding to begin.

It is the first large payout in what's likely to be a years long fight over who bears the more than $1 billion in estimated costs associated with the bridge's March collapse after it was struck by a cargo ship killing six people.

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