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The rickety politics of US infrastructure bill

The political maneuvering about infrastructure is getting pretty strange, what with President Joe Biden first cheering a bipartisan bill, then threatening to veto it, and then taking back the veto threat in the span of two days. When the action on stage gets hard to follow, it can be helpful to review the main characters and their motivations. The 21 ...

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Rolls-Royce aims to resolve its costliest jet-engine issue

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is increasingly optimistic that it can move beyond the jet-engine issues that have cost it billions of pounds and provided an unwelcome distraction during years of restructuring work. Final fixes to a litany of glitches that plagued the Trent 1000 turbine powering Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner should be made this year, engineering and technology director Simon ...

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Fortress to buy Wm Morrison for $8.7b

Bloomberg Fortress Investment Group agreed to buy Wm Morrison Supermarket Plc for about 6.3 billion pounds ($8.7 billion), trumping an earlier bid from Clayton Dubilier & Rice. The all-cash agreement by a group led by Fortress, a SoftBank Group Corp subsidiary, follows the UK supermarket chain’s rejection of CD&R’s 5.5 billion-pound offer last month. It’s the latest in a flurry ...

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