Novartis AG is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis was formed in 1996 from a merger of the two Basel pharmaceutical and chemical companies Ciba-Geigy AG and Sandoz AG. Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with sales of USD 47.4 billion in 2019.
A Failure to deliver also known as fails-to-deliver or FTD occurs when a buyer or seller is unable to meet his trading obligations. FTDs for US listed companies are reported to the SEC and published twice a month. Therefore there is a certain delay between the reporting and the publishing of the data.
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