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There’s family, and then there’s insider trading

  The connection between the law of insider trading and the nature of the sibling relationship may not be immediately obvious — but the U.S. Supreme Court will consider it Wednesday in what may be one of the most interesting cases of a term that the justices have designed to be boring. Salman v. U.S. turns on whether one brother ...

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We agree on Obamacare’s flaws, but not on fixes

  For weeks, rumors have been flying that WikiLeaks would deliver an “October surprise” for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, a bombshell revelation that she would struggle to recover from in the short weeks remaining until the election. (So far, it’s a dud — surprise!) But Clinton should be worried about a “November surprise” — the wave of policy cancellations and rate ...

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EasyJet posts first profit drop since 2009 on terror, Brexit

  Bloomberg EasyJet Plc’s annual profit fell for the first time since 2009 as a spate of terror attacks clipped demand and the decline of the pound following Britain’s vote to quit the European Union inflated foreign-currency costs. Pretax profit for the 12 months ended Sept. 30 is expected to have been in the range of 490 million pounds to ...

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