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Dying to survive, China shows the way on drug prices

US President Donald Trump exulted this week over Pfizer Inc’s decision to delay planned drug price increases a day after he attacked the company on Twitter. He should take a look at China, where President Xi Jinping has done much better. Over the past two weeks, the US pharmaceutical giant quietly cut the prices of more than a dozen of ...

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Lifehacks for when a robot wants your job

Can’t code, or speak Bahasa? Didn’t go to school with a CEO’s son or daughter? A robot will take your trading seat. Read on if you want to save your job. The threat from automation is in the flows part of banks’ global markets business, the most important chunk of the biggest division of investment banking. Investment banks garner 70 ...

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Deutsche Bank wins China nod for corporate bonds

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG became the latest foreign bank to be allowed to underwrite China’s corporate bonds as the government opens up the onshore debt market. The German bank has received approval from the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors, or NAFMII, to underwrite corporate bonds sold by both onshore and offshore issuers in the interbank market, it said ...

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