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Consider the crow eaten.  Bill Ackman made a rare apology and fell on his sword over Pershing Square’s failed Valeant stake (and the $4 billion it cost his investors) – NYTimes and Bloomberg

Saudi Aramco has a number in mind for its gangbusters IPO, and it’s a big one.  Like $2 billion big – WSJ

With Britain officially invoking Article 50 this week to initiate in earnest its breakup from the EU, Breakingviews warns that the relative calm that’s faced British markets since the Brexit vote isn’t likely to last – NYTimes

A group of current and former Citizen Bank branch employees from five states has admitted to fabricating information about the results of the Bank’s much-touted “Citizens Checkup” program (in which real customers are invited into bank branches for a “financial checkup”) – WSJ

The High Court issued a unanimous ruling that called credit card fee disclosures “speech,” thus subjecting state laws regulating such language to heightened scrutiny and making it much harder for courts to uphold such laws – Law360

More fallout [nuclear, but not that kind] from the Westinghouse bankruptcy, including a spate of unfinished reactors and a big question mark for Japanese/US energy relations – WSJ

Google’s accusing Uber exec (and former Waymo worker) of stealing corporate secrets and using confidential salary information while trying to poach former colleagues – NYTimes and Bloomberg

If you’re a big-name financial defendant (say, Bank of America, for example), you can’t be thrilled when the judge in your case invokes Kafka—especially when doing so in a discussion of your mortgage modification/foreclosures program – WSJ and Law360

Love this Journal feature on how Nasa artists come up with the apparent look of newly discovered planets that we know exist but have not come even close to seeing – WSJ

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