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Australia cracks down on banks with annual grilling

  Sydney / AFP Australia’s largest banks will have to face a parliamentary committee for an annual grilling to “drive cultural change”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday as he addressed public disquiet about their behaviour. The country’s “big four” lenders — among the developed world’s most profitable — have been under scrutiny in recent years amid allegations of ...

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8 possible fates for Obamacare exchanges

  A lot’s been happening in the health-care markets. California announced that premiums would rise by an average of 13.2 percent on its exchanges, after years of being one of the standouts for low premium growth. Meanwhile, Anthem, a large insurer, said it would expand its presence in the Obamacare exchanges — but only if its merger with Cigna is ...

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Melania Trump’s lucky immigrant adventure

  Francis Wilkinson Melania Trump’s husband says she is a 10. Would Donald Trump marry a woman who wasn’t? The question answers itself. But when she was younger, apparently working as a model in New York, the question is whether the former Melania Knauss was associated with another number — an H-1B or a B1 or B2 visa, or perhaps ...

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