Bloomberg Duan Yongping is convinced Tim Cook didn’t have a clue who he was when they first met a couple years ago. The Apple boss probably does now. Duan is the reclusive billionaire who founded Oppo and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world’s largest company a stinging defeat in China last year. Once derided as cheap …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The value of shares bought by foreign traders at the UAE financial markets stood at AED21.8 billion in the first two months of 2017. This volatility reflects high frequency of entering of this investor category to the market compared to the same period in 2016. An Emirates News Agency (WAM) analysis shows that foreign purchases …

  It’s time to take control of Medicaid before it takes control of us. Unless we act — and there is little evidence that we will — Medicaid increasingly becomes another mechanism by which government skews spending toward the old and away from the young. In the raging debate over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), this is a subject that …