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...Monday EU, European Commission publishes its winter interim economic forecast India, January consumer price index (CPI) inflation data UK, Office for National Statistics research on homeworking US, Federal...
...The investment comes a week after regulators at the US Federal Trade Commission intervened in JAB Consumer Partners’ acquisition of SAGE Veterinary Partners, forcing the JAB investment vehicle to divest...
...Small caps tend to be more volatile than blue-chip stocks both on the way up and down — and could be big medium-term winners if Kolanovic et al are right....
...Sunak could commission a detailed survey asking UK businesses to choose/name their preferred trade relationship with their counterparts in Europe....
...Greetings from Denver, where I have unexpectedly been forced to relocate for a while due to a family health issue....
...The day ahead FTC faces deadline on Facebook suit The Federal Trade Commission has until today to submit an amended complaint in its Facebook antitrust suit after a federal judge dismissed the complaint...
...The International Air Transport Association, meanwhile, is pushing an airline-led programme....
...Highlights include Tony Blair, Michael O’Leary, the World Health Organization’s Soumya Swaminathan, Sheila Bair, McKinsey’s Kevin Sneader, Al Gore, Kristalina Georgieva and David Rubenstein....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Naturally, this had nothing to do with the Agreement being trade related and beaching it might give the Commission the right to impose punitive tariffs if we had a no deal Brexit....
...new Lancet and FT Commission that will explore the opportunities and challenges that technology poses to global health....
...They are likely to have only a limited economic impact on 2019, and it might even be modestly expansionary and raise consumer spending particularly if the European Commission goes easy on France’s fiscal...
...The Office of the United States Trade Representative held a hearing on what action it should recommend for Mr Trump to take on imports of solar panels, after the US International Trade Commission concluded...
...This will benefit the global economy and our growth (see also my answer to 7.), hence pushing UK growth above 1.5%.”...
...This would be good for exports but not consumer spending in the UK....
...Still, William Kovacic, who served at the Federal Trade Commission under both Mr Bush and Mr Obama, says the tougher image is overstated....
...The gap has also been widening, rising by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women since 2001 (source: Chetty et al 2016) – with deaths by suicides, substance abuse, and drug overdoses rising for certain...
...We have seen chronic under-investment by government and business in our infrastructure: housing, roads, airports, energy, health, education, et cetera....
...Indeed, on Thursday a significant coalition of consumer activists, economists, lawyers, entrepreneurs and former participants in mutli-level marketing programmes will submit a petition to the Federal Trade...
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...As investigators probe to see whether a process designed to be impervious to manipulation has been purposefully subverted, the British Bankers’ Association, a trade group that sponsors Libor, last week launched...
...The National Institutes of Health, the US federal research funder, is revising its conflict of interest codes for grant recipients, and many medical schools have taken similar steps to clamp down on industry...
...The study comes as US legislators push for a ban on such “pay for delay” deals, which Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, called the “most corrupt” practice in the healthcare industry...
...al at a national level....
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