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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Pharma Prices Raise Eyebrows

US: Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, an American pharmaceuticals company, finds herself at the center of one of the biggest pharma controversies in recent years: price-gouging.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Tax Clampdown Looks Beyond Apple

The EU hit Apple with a tax bill, but it's not the only company in regulators' sights.McDonalds, Facebook, Google and Amazonare being called on the carpet about tax practices too.

Awards

World’s Best Consumer Bank: On Keeping Customers Happy

Jennifer Tory, group head, personal and commercial banking at RBC, discusses the bank’s ongoing quest to blend its digital and physical channels for clients.

News

Can Jet CEO Make Walmart.com Fly?

US | Wal-Mart’s decision to buy Jet.com, a fast-growing e-commerce company, for $3.3 billion is being viewed as a shrewd move for both companies—one that strengthens their ability to compete with Amazon.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cuba Says Welcome, But Bring Your Own Financing

Frontier Markets Report: Cuba Obstacles and contradictions mar Cuba’s environment for foreign direct investment, but its market offers a wealth of opportunity.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US Firms Embrace Softer, More Frequent Reviews

HUMAN RESOURCES | Performance appraisals drive everyone nuts, but many US companies are doing them more often.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US Companies Cut Back On Share Repurchases

A squeeze on earnings and a rise in funding costs have persuaded many US companies to commit less cash to buying back their own shares this year.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US Still A Strong Draw For FDI

Aaron Brickman, senior vice president for strategy and development at the Organization for International Investment (OFII), a nonprofit trade association, also founded SelectUSA, a federal program to promote foreign direct investment in the US. He visited Global Finance to discuss the state of FDI worldwide.

News

LinkedIn Hopes For Soft Link With Microsoft

US | When Microsoft boughtLinkedIn, the deal was structured to leavethe networking site to grow and develop somewhat independently. The question is, how independently?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

ECB Corporate Bond Buying Lures US Issuers

Capital Markets | Fixed Income US companies are rushing to borrow in European bond markets. They’re taking advantage of low interest rates on euro-denominated issues after the European Central Bank’s decision to start buying investment-grade corporate bonds in June—part of its economic stimulus program. Last year already set a record for corporate borrowing in Europe’s bond markets, where rates are significantly lower than in the US.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Serial Inverters Curtailed As Global Reforms Move Forward

Trends | Inversions The US Treasury Department’s recent rules against corporate inversions are intended to stop “serial inverters.”

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Kashkari Declares War On Big US Banks

US: At 42, he is a former banker, a former bailout czar and a former politician. He wants to persuade the public, from Wall Street to Main Street, that large banks pose a risk to the economic system.The risk is too high, he says, and must be eliminated—surely not a minor feat, not even for one of the presidents of the mighty Federal Reserve.