Industries

Industries

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Bite at Major Amtrak Contract

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has held talks with the Federal Railroad Administration about building a multi-billion dollar Amtrak tunnel.

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Healthcare

Pharma Giants Combine Forces to Fight New M&A Rules

Some of pharma’s biggest players — including Merck, Amgen, Abbvie, and Gilead — formed an alliance to fight looming M&A reforms.

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Consumer

Macy’s is Pivoting From its Legacy of Anchoring Malls

Macy’s is going less colosseum and more cozy in a cost-cutting shift away from large locations in malls and into small-format stores.

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Industrials

Blue Origin Grounds Commercial Space Station Plans

Blue Origin is expected to back out of plans to build a commercial space station in conjunction with corporate partners.

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Healthcare

UnitedHealth CEO Replaced by Predecessor as Stock Plummets

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UnitedHealth Group has called in its CEO to deal with a Medicare Advantage program that’s crunching margins.

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Healthcare

Trump Prescribes Deep Discounts for Big Pharma

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The Trump administration promised to drastically cut prescription drugs prices in the US, where the industry makes most of its money.

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Industries

Bank Access Bill Might Finally Lift Marijuana Out of the Shadows

There’s been this little obstacle standing in the way of a functioning nationwide marijuana market: the law.

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Industries

The Anti-obesity Drug Market Is About to Get More Crowded

The weight loss drug market could be worth $100 billion in the next few years. Naturally, other companies want in.

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla Gets Caught In EU-China Crossfire

The EU’s antitrust investigation claims that China is artificially flooding the market with cheap EVs via enormous state subsidies.

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International Economics

UK-US Strike Trade Deal Affirming ‘Special Relationship’

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The UK and US announced a “historic” trade deal Thursday that does little to reduce Washington’s overall global trade war.

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