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UAE stocks gain AED6.3bn in weekend trading

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE financial markets closed with a profitability in weekend trading with heavy stocks, which strengthened their gains for the second straight session, amid continued buying by some corporations. The market value share gains traded by companies amounted to AED6.3 billion, according to official figures released after the close of trading. The general index of …

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The ‘Trumpcare’ trap

  What we learned from the latest ‘score’ by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) of Obamacare and the Trump administration’s ‘repeal and replace’ plan is what we should have known all along. To wit: If people have health insurance, they will use more health services — visits to doctors’ offices, more tests, procedures and drugs — and health spending will …

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Is Indian pharma finally out of intensive care?

  India’s generic drug-making industry is getting wheeled out of intensive care. But is it really going home? The US Food and Drug Administration this week lifted the import ban on a factory that Mumbai-based Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. inherited as part of its takeover of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. The plant, in Punjab state, became the third owned by Ranbaxy …

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