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Financial Daily Dose 11.1.2021 | Top Story: Barclays CEO Out Over Ties to Epstein

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Barclay’s CEO Jes Staley is stepping down immediately after a two-year investigation by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Conduct Authority into Staley’s “relationship with the disgraced financier...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.2.2021 | Top Story: NY Judge Provisionally Approves Purdue Pharma Dissolution, Sackler Liability Shield

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A New York federal bankruptcy judge provisionally approved an opioid settlement plan on Wednesday that will dissolve Purdue Pharma and require members of the Sackler family (which owns Purdue) to “turn over billions of their...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.16.2020 | Top Story: WTO Finds U.S.’s 2018 Tariffs on China Broke Trade Rules

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A World Trade Organization panel on Tuesday declared that the U.S.’s 2018 tariffs on China “violated international trade rules,” siding with China and its allegations that the White House’s trade war broke, among other...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.13.2020 | Top Story: OPEC Weighs Expanded Oil Production Just Months After Agreeing on Cuts

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OPEC and its oil-producing allies (in Russia and elsewhere) are reportedly working on a plan to ease cuts on oil production they agreed upon in April “amid signs that demand is returning to normal levels following...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.24.2020 | Top Story: Top German Court Upholds Antitrust Ruling Against Facebook Over Illegal Data...

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Germany’s Federal Court of Justice upheld a decision by the country’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday that “Facebook had abused its dominance in social media to illegally harvest data about its users”—a “major victory for...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.13.2020 | Top Story: Oil-producing countries reach broad agreement to cut

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The pandemic is bringing rivals Apple and Google together in an effort to develop a system for “tracking through Bluetooth technology the contacts of those who have tested positive for COVID-19, a method the tech giants...more

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US and France reach agreement on digital tax

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 3 (February 6, 2020)  - France has agreed to suspend collection of the Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, or “GAFA” digital tax until the end of the year, allowing for a period of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.16.2019 | Top Story: Boeing Execs Mull Halting 737 Max Production as FAA Clearance Stalls

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Boeing’s 737 MAX faces an uncertain future. Boeing is considering at least a temporary halt to its 737 Max production “as regulatory clearance for the grounded jet’s return looks increasingly likely to slip beyond January...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.13.2019 | Top Story: US Announces Phase One Trade Agreement With China, But No Confirmation From Chinese

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The US and China have reportedly reached an initial agreement on the “final terms of a phase one trade deal, moving both countries closer to signing a pact that” the White House originally announced in October and averting...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.09.2019 | Top Story: States Begin Trial Today Challenging T-Mobile/Sprint Merger on Antitrust Grounds

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Thirteen states and the District of Columbia are suing to block the $26 billion plan to merge T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. The trial is slated to begin today with state officials arguing the deal would create “a more...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.08.2019 | Top Story: US and China Set to Roll Back Tariffs as Part of Trade Deal First Phase

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The U.S. and China have tentatively [maybe?] agreed that a first phase of a trade agreement “would roll back a portion of the tariffs placed on each other’s products, a significant step toward defusing tensions between the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.24.2019 | Top Story: Lawmakers Grill Zuckerberg on Libra and Political Ads

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We didn’t get flop sweat Zuck, but it was still a hot seat indeed for Facebook’s founder and CEO on the Hill yesterday, who fielded a wide range of questions from Libra to political freedom of expression on his platform....more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.18.2019 | Top Story: Unpacking the UK/EU Brexit Deal and Its Rocky Road Ahead in Parliament

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Details are trickling in on the tentative Brexit agreement reached between UK and EU negotiators this week, just 14 days ahead of the Halloween departure deadline.  A massive sticking point here remains the British...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.17.2019 | Top Story: GM and UAW Reach Tentative Deal to End Month-long Strike

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Good news out of Detroit late yesterday, with officials from General Motors and the United Autoworkers Union striking a “tentative agreement on a new labor contract that could end the monthlong strike that has idled G.M....more

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Window On Washington - Vol. 3, Issue 38

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress Returns. The House and Senate return on Tuesday from a two week recess that included multiple House committee meetings related to the impeachment inquiry....more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.14.2019 | Top Story: WeWork Board Weighing Bailout Options from SoftBank and JPMorgan

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We Work’s largest investor, SoftBank, is reportedly sketching out plans in which it would drop billions of additional money on the company in return for giving Masa Son control of WeWork “and further sidelin[ing] its founder...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.10.2019 | Top Story: US/China Trade Talks Resume Even as Tensions Grow

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Senior negotiators from the U.S. and China will officially resume trade negotiations today, “with higher tariffs looming if [they] fail to break a five-month stalemate.” The U.S.’s moves this week to blacklist 28 Chinese tech...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.4.2019 | Top Story: Markets Watching US Jobs Report for Clues on More Fed Rate Action

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Jobs report Friday again. Here’s what to look for in the numbers [and let’s temper those expectations, okay?]...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.13.2019 | Top Story: ECB Cuts Rates and Restarts QE in Effort to Preempt European Downturn

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The ECB was even more aggressive than expected in its moves to “head off a downturn before it gained momentum,” cutting a key interest rate and reviving “a money-printing program.” At the same time, the central bank “issued...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.14.2019 | Top Story: U.S. Backs Off New Tariffs on China Until December

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In the internal battle between keeping China off balance and keeping Wall Street happy, the White House has decided once again to focus on the latter, walking back the latest tariff escalation by postponing promised...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.2.2019 | Top Story: White House Threatens More Tariffs on China

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Apparently hoping to urge China off of its new go-slow tactic, the White House is applying its maximum pressure campaign again, announcing yesterday that the US will “impose a 10 percent tariff on an additional $300 billion...more

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French Parliament Passes GAFA Tax

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On July 11, 2019, the French Parliament adopted the bill creating a tax on digital services, applicable as from January 1, 2019. Failed International Attempts - The desire to adjust tax policy in the digital age is not...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.18.2019 | Top Story: Netflix Loses U.S. Streaming Subscribers For First Time

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Netflix has been priming markets for bad news, and it delivered on Wednesday, reporting the loss of 126,000 paid U.S. subscribers in Q2—the company’s first domestic decrease since it started its streaming service 12 years...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.16.2019 | Top Story: Regulators Raise National Security Concerns About Facebook’s Libra Crypto

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is the latest prominent government official to express concerns about Facebook’s coming Libra launch. Speaking at a briefing yesterday, Mnuchin focused on national security issues related to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.11.2019 | Top Story: Fed Chair Primes Markets for July Rate Cut

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The big takeaway from Day 1 of Fed Chair Powell’s Congressional testimony is that a July rate cut is still definitely on the table, despite last week’s strong US jobs numbers.  As the Times puts it, “That the Fed is...more

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