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...But it had better luck before the International Trade Commission, a body set up more than a century ago to manage US tariffs....
...As the EU approved Microsoft’s $75bn bid to buy Activision Blizzard, the US Federal Trade Commission sued to block Amgen’s $28.3bn deal to acquire Horizon Therapeutics and warned of “rampant consolidation...
...Lloyd’s of London pledged $50mn to global development projects, as part of a programme addressing lasting inequalities from the transatlantic slave trade that it enabled....
...Communications Commission approval required to sell electronic devices there....
...Global regulators were alarmed by the rise of the US Treasury basis trade, where hedge funds borrow money from banks to bet on the price of Treasury bonds and futures converging....
...Fixed alliances are shifting to “à la carte” arrangements while Beijing is using its muscle to reduce the west’s influence and dethrone the dollar from its dominant position in international trade and finance...
...Nato: It’s a historic day for the western military alliance as it officially welcomes Finland, its 31st member, in a ceremony to be attended by US secretary of state Antony Blinken....
...Job moves Christine Wilson, the only Republican commissioner at the US Federal Trade Commission, plans to resign, writing in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that she could no longer serve because of...
...Trade Commission....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Federal powers exist to thwart America’s Nimbies / From Todd Tucker, Director of Industrial Policy & Trade, Roosevelt Institute, Washington, DC,...
...Needless to say, the prospects for this transatlantic alliance will hinge on the outcome of the next US election....
...Hoffman, then-acting director of the Federal Trade Commission....
...It fought activist shareholders who wanted to break it up, avoided a hostile takeover by Broadcom, and won a significant battle against the US Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it charged “unreasonably...
...Tech week ahead Monday: The US Senate is expected to confirm Big Tech critic Lina Khan as a commissioner on the five-member Federal Trade Commission.Tuesday: The Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy...
...At the start of 2021, as the global pandemic reached a new high, AmerisourceBergen agreed a majority acquisition of Alliance Healthcare, the distribution business of Walgreens Boots Alliance, for $6.5bn....
...Washington vs Big Tech In the past two months as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, 32-years-old Lina Khan has begun a fundamental revamp — rescinding policies designed to limit its legal powers, changing...
...Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general presumptive of the World Trade Organization, is steeped in this approach as chair of Gavi, the global vaccines alliance, though she declined to comment for this piece...
...These challenges mirror the national situation: even as Congress granted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission more power to over-rule states in greening the grid, it shaved down infrastructure bill funding...
...(FT) The day ahead Monetary policy Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Robert Kaplan is expected to moderate a conversation on national and global economic issues for a virtual Global Perspectives...
...Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission sued to block biotech group Illumina’s $7bn purchase of cancer screening start-up Grail....
...Charted waters Global trade continued its dramatic recovery over the summer months....
...Rosa Pavanelli, head of Public Services International, the global federation of trade unions, says coronavirus has highlighted the importance of government jobs....
...The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution estimates that Vietnam had 50,232 deaths because of air pollution in 2017....
...In Europe, expectations were also lowered after the European Commission slashed its growth forecasts for the region’s economy this year....
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