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Why India must end Yes Bank’s theatre of absurd

Before it results in a tragedy for all of India’s banking, regulators need to step in and end the farce called Yes Bank Ltd. The latest shenanigans make it very clear that the authorities need to stop being spectators — and act. The original cast has vanished. The co-founder who drove the country’s fifth largest private-sector bank into a ditch ...

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Aston Martin is a binge too far for China’s Geely

Timing is everything in investing, a refrain the ambitious Li Shufu might want to heed. The Geely Group has held preliminary talks about a possible investment in Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings Plc, the high-end but encumbered British carmaker of James Bond fame. Billionaire Lawrence Stroll, owner of the Racing Point Formula One team, is also among the investors looking ...

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What we don’t know about climate is killing us

For more than 30 years, scientists have tried to inform governments and the public on the urgent threat of global warming, working hard — as scientific norms demand — to acknowledge honestly the limits to what they know. It hasn’t worked. As a recent report from the United Nations Environment Program shows, global carbon dioxide emissions have gone up, not ...

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