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Trump shouldn’t waste another N Korea summit

US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un have agreed to meet for a second summit at the end of next month. Agreeing to this was probably a mistake — but to have any hope of producing results, Trump will have to prepare much more carefully than he did last time. There’s been virtually no progress in ...

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Tariffs are killing American steel sector with kindness

One year in, how’s President Donald Trump’s mission to save the US steel and aluminum sectors going? Judging by the stock prices of metal producers, you could be mistaken for thinking he’s trying to destroy the industry instead. The aggregate market capitalisation of the seven major US primary steel and aluminum producers — Nucor Corp., US Steel Corp., AK Steel ...

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Macron can’t afford to stick by Ghosn

France has done the right thing by paving the way for Carlos Ghosn’s succession at the top of automaker Renault SA. Whatever the merits of the legal case against the CEO in Japan, he remains in custody, has been denied bail, and his trial could be at least six months away. This is not an executive who’s able to properly ...

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