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For UBS Group, the best isn’t yet to come

UBS Group AG CEO Sergio Ermotti is running out of goodies to sustain the Swiss bank’s premium valuation. After a poor end to 2017, he tried to placate shareholders with buybacks. Now, he is counting on growth at the investment bank to drive future returns. But with a blowout quarter for trading behind us, and more work to do to ...

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Here’s a sure way to make Facebook, Google behave

“What happens to you here is forever,” warns O’Brien, an agent of the Thought Police, in “1984. He would’ve loved the internet. Online, everything is forever. All the sites you visit, articles you like, posts you share: They’re in the permanent file. Facebook Inc.’s most recent scandal — in which it allowed an outside company to furtively collect its users’ ...

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Trump cannot make the Manafort case disappear

When August 2016 began, Paul Manafort was about 11 weeks into his job as chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign. But despite the political tumult, Manafort found time that month to meet at a swank Manhattan cigar bar with someone the FBI has suggested has ties to Russian intelligence. By the time August ended, Manafort was gone — having resigned after ...

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