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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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Insurers need to love Amazon

Whenever Amazon. com Inc eyes expansion into a new industry, the stalwarts of that space shudder. A Reuters report that the e-commerce giant has been talking to insurers about introducing a price comparison website in the UK was no different. Incumbents Moneysupermarket.com Group Plc and GoCompare.com Group Plc fell as much as 4.7 percent and 10 percent respectively. But for ...

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