{"id":125512,"date":"2026-09-03T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125512\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:07:36","slug":"roche-confirms-2020-outlook-as-covid-19-diagnostics-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125512\/","title":{"rendered":"Roche confirms 2020 outlook as Covid-19 diagnostics surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photo showing the logo of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche in Basel.<\/p>\n<p>SEBASTIEN BOZON | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ROP-CH\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roche<\/a> on Thursday confirmed its full-year 2020 outlook for low-to mid-single-digit percentage sales growth as revenue from Covid-19 tests and newer drugs help balance out declining sales from older medicines that are no longer on patent.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue through September slipped 5% to 44 billion Swiss francs ($48.21 billion), Roche said in a statement, down from 46 billion francs in the year-earlier period as the rising value of the Swiss franc eroded reported revenue.<\/p>\n<p> Sales rose 1% in constant currencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo showing the logo of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche in Basel. SEBASTIEN BOZON | AFP | Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[124],"tags":[166,230,1306,134,473],"class_list":["post-125512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-roche","tag-business-news","tag-earnings","tag-health-care-industry","tag-roche","tag-roche-holding-ag"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117209153239265102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}