PARIS (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde sought on Tuesday to convince judges she was not negligent in signing off on a 400 million euro ($425 million) French state payout to a business tycoon in 2008.
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The markets want to hear whether the Trump economy could jolt the Fed into a faster pace of interest rate hikes, but there's little chance the Fed will send that message Wednesday, when it is expected to raise interest rates for the second time in 10 …
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Rick Perry, a former governor of Texas, in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Monday. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times.
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Orange SA Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard, previously Christine Lagarde's chief of staff when she was France's finance minister, refused to
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Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg View columnist. She was the editor of Reason magazine and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the
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