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Sempra shrinks buyback plan to free up cash for Mexico pipeline

  Bloomberg Sempra Energy says it’s more interested in making money from energy projects in Latin America than buying back shares. The San Diego, California-based utility owner said it’s scaling back its target for buying shares by $500 million and will instead use the cash to help build a $2 billion natural gas pipeline in Mexico. In fact, its Mexican ...

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Brazil’s Goldfajn confronts tough balancing act

  Bloomberg When Ilan Goldfajn presides over his first policy meeting as Brazil’s central bank chief, he’ll have a daunting task: reviving an economy mired in its worst recession in a more than a century while restoring the bank’s inflation-fighting bona fides. Traders and analysts — who expect the central bank to keep interest rates unchanged at a 10-year high ...

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The only way to prevent lone wolf attacks

  Recent high-profile terror attacks pose a new challenge for police and intelligence services. All seem to be the work of lone wolf actors. Yet police and intelligence services, by the nature of their work, target groups. It’s possible to adjust that focus, but that would require Western societies to make an important trade-off. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum ...

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