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Tesla board torn between service to shareholders, CEO

Bloomberg Tesla Inc.’s board of directors is at a critical juncture, wedged between a larger-than-life figure to whom many are personally close and their larger responsibility to shareholders. Elon Musk’s astonishing interview with the New York Times has heightened concerns surrounding the health of Tesla’s chairman and chief executive officer, with shares plunging 8.9 percent, the largest drop in nearly ...

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Atlantia prepares Genoa compensation plan

Bloomberg The Benetton family’s Atlantia SpA is preparing a compensation package to help victims of the Genoa bridge disaster and provide the region with funds to repair damaged train links and roads. The plan was worked out in consultations between executives at the family’s holding company, the Atlantia infrastructure company they control, and their lawyers and advisers. Autostrade per l’Italia, ...

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Markets know better what society needs

Governments, seemingly eager to supply their critics with ammunition, constantly validate historian Robert Conquest: The behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. Consider North Carolina’s intervention in the medical-devices market. Born in India, Dr Gajendra Singh is an American citizen and a surgeon in Winston-Salem ...

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