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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has reached a settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd over charges that its agreements with rivals impeded consumer access to lower-priced generic drugs. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it had settled three reverse payment fights with units of Teva, which will be prohibited from making similar agreements with competitors in the future. The FTC has long fought against so-called “pay for delay” settlements, in which a brand-name drugmaker pays or otherwise compensates a generic rival to delay releasing a cheaper version of its product. The deal is often struck to resolve patent litigation.

“This broad settlement prevents the world’s largest manufacturer of generic drugs from entering into collusive agreements that prevent price competition by keeping generic drugs off the market,” FTC Chairman Joe Simons said in a statement, “We are very pleased to baguette diamond double ended basketball cufflinks put these litigations against the FTC behind us,” said Brendan O’Grady, a Teva executive vice president, The FTC believes that paying rivals to stay off the market is a violation of antitrust law and fought one case to the Supreme Court, which agreed that it could be in some circumstances..

The agency has said that the deals cost consumers billions annually in higher drug costs. In Congress, Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat now running for president, and Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican chair of the Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation in January to make such deals explicitly illegal. The oldest of the three cases settled on Tuesday dates to 2009, when the FTC sued Solvay Pharmaceuticals for paying off Watson Pharmaceuticals, Par Pharmaceutical Co and Paddock Laboratories to delay bringing out a generic version of AndroGel, a testosterone cream. Watson is now owned by Teva.

The second case dates to 2014 and also involves AndroGel, In this instance, AbbVie Inc, which had acquired the drug, was accused of paying off Teva and another generic maker to again delay bringing out a cheaper baguette diamond double ended basketball cufflinks version of the medicine, In the third case, Endo Pharmaceuticals was accused of paying generic companies, including Watson, to refrain from bringing out a generic version of Lidoderm, which is used to relieve nerve pain, Endo settled with the FTC in 2017, FTC litigation continues against Solvay and other of the brand name drug companies, The agency also said it would press on with a lawsuit accusing AbbVie and a partner for filing baseless patent litigation claims..

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Fed President John Williams on Tuesday said he was comfortable with the level U.S. interest rates are at now and that he sees no need to raise them again unless economic growth or inflation shifts to an unexpectedly higher gear. In an interview with Reuters, Williams estimated the Federal Reserve would continue trimming its bond portfolio well into next year. He also said he felt rates had reached his current view of a lower “neutral” level, with growth and unemployment leveling off and inflation, if anything, a bit weaker than hoped.

Asked if it would take some sort of shock to resume rate increases, he said it would require one or more of those factors to surprise baguette diamond double ended basketball cufflinks to the upside, “I don’t think that it would take a big change, but it would be a different outlook either for growth or inflation” to return to hiking rates, Williams, one of the Fed’s three vice chairs and a key voice on rate policy, told Reuters, Williams’ comments, made just weeks after the U.S, central bank paused its once quarterly rate hikes, underscore just how high the bar would be for tighter monetary policy, and suggest that such a move may not come anytime soon..

The Fed could also keep levels of bank reserves on its books that are far closer to current levels than previously thought, Williams said. Along with its rate-hike holiday, Fed policymakers are finalizing plans on how they would end the reduction of their balance sheet, which includes holdings of bank reserves bulked up in part by the Fed’s need for cash to buy bonds to halt the global financial crisis a decade ago. Williams estimated the so-called balance sheet rolloff could end when bank reserves get to “maybe $1 trillion of reserves or somewhat more than that,” about $600 billion less than current levels.

The figure is “a guess today of the amount of reserves that will be held in the system in the future - but again we are learning and will get a finer touch on that,” he said, That view implies the runoff baguette diamond double ended basketball cufflinks would continue at least into next year at its current pace, At least two Fed policymakers have said the Fed could stop making changes to the portfolio this year, Williams, who is vice chairman of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee and votes when that group meets, said policymakers are “in a very good place,” with rates around neutral, the U.S, economy growing and price pressures subdued..



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