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No-deal Brexit takes centre stage in battle to be UK PM

Bloomberg Boris Johnson toughened his Brexit rhetoric with a “do or die” pledge to leave the European Union on October 31 as Jeremy Hunt, his underdog rival to become UK prime minister, battled to persuade Tory party members the strategy is flawed. The front-runner challenged Hunt to match his commitment to leave “come what may” in a letter posted on ...

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How to make the G-20 summit matter more

This week’s G-20 summit in Japan will showcase both what’s best and most frustrating about this once-promising construct for coordinating global policy. A simple institutional fix could address many of the problems. All that’s required is some bold leadership on the multilateral stage. Founded in 1999 to include 19 countries and the European Union, the G-20 was the result of ...

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Global tech is weaker than it looks

Ten months ago, I warned that storm clouds were brewing over the global technology industry. The situation today is much worse. Back then, a US-China trade war was more risk than reality, Apple Inc.’s pending iPhone update held promise, and central banks were still in tightening mode. Yet inventories at the end of June 2018 had climbed to the highest ...

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