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Breakingviews - Sergio Marchionne leaves a giant sweater to fill

By Antony Currie and Lisa Jucca NEW YORK/MILAN (Reuters Breakingviews) - Sergio Marchionne leaves a massive sweater to fill. Fiat Chrysler's board replaced him as chief e...

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Breakingviews - GE's clean sheet reveals real turnaround challenge

By Tom Buerkle NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - A quarterly earnings report without big writedowns represents a victory of sorts for General Electric boss John Flannery...

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Breakingviews - Review: The Lehman saga told by its Brothers

By Peter Thal Larsen LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - In September it will be a decade since Lehman Brothers collapsed. While many recall the Wall Street firm’s dramati...

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Breakingviews - UK takes space leap as it leaves EU orbit

By Bob Cervi LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Britain’s space industry has taken a big step forward. A plan to create Europe’s first-ever rocket launch pad taps into ...

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Breakingviews - Aussie tycoon hammers home overboarding message

By Jeffrey Goldfarb HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Companies around the world just got a stark reminder about how stretched executives can get. Australian billionair...

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Breakingviews - The Exchange: Asia's bubbly entrepreneurs

HONG KONG Pete Sweeney hits the RISE tech conference in Hong Kong and hears pitches on vegan cryptocurrency, fog computing and big data for shrimp farmers. Trade tensions haven�...

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Breakingviews - Microsoft could use some self-inflicted activism

By Robert Cyran NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Microsoft needs to become its own activist. The software giant now has more than $50 billion in net cash on its balance...

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Breakingviews - Viewsroom: Europe puts Google in a bind

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The search firm can easily cover the EU’s $5 bln fine for using its Android phone system to stymie rivals. But the order to stop forcing han...

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Breakingviews - Aramco's downstream diversion solves few problems

By Peter Thal Larsen LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Saudi Aramco has a new way to keep corporate financiers busy. The state-owned oil giant has spent more than two yea...

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Breakingviews - Comcast's second loss to Disney is a victory

By Jennifer Saba NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts is swallowing his ego a second time. The controlling owner of the U.S. cable fir...