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The British are taking back control of the boardroom

The UK has long prided itself on being open for business. Its top 100 publicly traded companies derive most of their revenue from overseas and boast a higher proportion of foreign bosses than the US, Germany and France. But that diversity is starting to fade — just as Brexit looms large. Recruitment firm Robert Half estimated earlier this year that ...

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Noodles give Hong Kong’s IPO market indigestion

Not tech, not interested.That seems to be the mantra of investors in Hong Kong as an instant-noodle spinoff fell as much as 12.4 percent in its debut on Monday and Hebei Construction Group Corp. was said to price its IPO at the bottom of the indicative range. The unit of Nissin Foods Co. is just one of a handful of ...

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Let US states lower Medicaid drug prices

Drug prices are too high, and Congress lacks the political will to do anything about it. These are two of the most uncontroversial assertions in the contentious debate about US health care policy — and they explain why states should be allowed to act on their own. The high price of medicine is a familiar lament from presidents and pharmaceutical ...

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