Bloomberg Gadfly's Brooke Sutherland and Bloomberg's Michael McKee discuss Cigna's deal to buy Express Scripts. Cigna Corp. agreed to buy Express Scripts Holding Co. in an about $54 billion deal that builds on the rapid transformation of the health-care business as companies and consumers
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President Donald Trump said Gary Cohn might return to his administration some day even as he teased the departing economic adviser for being weak on tariffs. Trump told reporters at the beginning of a cabinet meeting Thursday that Cohn might come back but probably not in the same job, joking that
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The European Union wants a strong signal from the U.K. that it's prepared to engage with the Irish border issue before allowing Brexit talks to move on, according to a diplomat familiar with the bloc's thinking. The intractable issue of what happens to the Irish border after Brexit was temporarily fixed in
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“They like Texas,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Kit Konolige said of Sempra. “It's obviously the center of the energy industry.” Before the bankruptcy, Energy Future was the target of the largest-ever leveraged buyout, when it was taken private for $48 billion in 2007 by a group led by KKR & Co. and
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Special Report The audit of the future. More in. Audits. Technology is finally coming to the last of the core trio of traditional accounting services, and it looks set to completely revolutionize how auditors work and the services they offer. Register to View
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