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WSJ Minute Briefing

Novo Nordisk Slashes Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Johnson & Johnson agrees to acquire Halda Therapeutics for just over $3 billion. And Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson says the Fed should proceed slowly with any further interest rate cuts. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your midday brief for Monday, November 17th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

0:41.3

Novo Nordisk is cutting prices for its obesity drugs, making the first two monthly doses of Wagovi and OZempic

0:48.2

available for $199 a month for cash-paying customers between now and the end of March. After those first two months,

0:56.5

patients will pay the new standard cash monthly price of $349, down from a previous price of $499.

1:05.1

The Denmark-based company is implementing these price reductions ahead of an agreement with the Trump

1:10.0

administration,

1:14.2

which mandates it lowered GLP1 drug costs.

1:22.0

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to acquire HALDA therapeutics for just over $3 billion in cash,

1:25.2

bolstering the health care giant's oncology pipeline.

1:28.8

Johnson and Johnson said the deal, expected to close within the next few months, adds HALDA's proprietary platform for developing oral targeted therapies for

1:34.7

multiple types of solid tumors, including prostate cancer. Johnson & Johnson is expecting the HALDA acquisition

1:41.1

to reduce its 2026 adjusted per share earnings by about 15 cents

1:46.6

due to short-term financing and a charge related to equity awards for HALDA employees.

1:53.0

And Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson said the Fet should proceed slowly with any

1:58.4

further interest rate cuts to avoid potentially undermining anti-inflation

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