Bloomberg You don’t need to tell UK nurses what this week’s inflation and wage data will show. They say their living standards have been squeezed for seven years, and now it’s reached crisis point. With reports from the Office for National Statistics set to show pay continuing to lag price growth in Britain, nurses are just the latest group of …

Bloomberg The state of Ohio’s lawsuit against opioid maker Purdue Pharma should be thrown out because it runs afoul of federal drug regulations and doesn’t show the company’s Oxycontin painkiller marketing caused specific harm, according to a court filing. Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue filed its response in state court in Ohio to Attorney General Mike DeWine’s May suit, accusing the pharmaceutical …

KIEV / Reuters Ukraine might lose its second largest wheat export market, Egypt, due to new wheat import requirements that favour rival Russia, Ukraine’s acting agriculture minister said. Ukraine exported around 2.5 million tonnes of wheat to Egypt in the 2016/17 season, or about 14 percent of the country’s total wheat exports of 17.5 million tonnes, according to consultancy UkrAgroConsult. …