Breakingviews: Lending Clubbed

Richard Beales and Antony Currie consider the limits of fintech disruption after Lending Club's mis-selling of loans cost the company its founder and CEO and 25 percent of its value.

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Breakingviews: Halliburton in deep water?

Richard Beales and Kevin Allison discuss the lack of repercussions, so far, for the costly failure of Halliburton's $35 bln Baker Hughes deal, and why CEO David Lesar should take some blame.

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Breakingviews: Tesla floors it

Elon Musk's electric-car maker is accelerating production targets, which bring new technological and financial risks. Kevin Allison and Jeffrey Goldfarb take them for a spin.

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Breakingviews: Facebook's C for governance

Mark Zuckerberg's planned issuance of non-voting stock disadvantages regular shareholders. Breakingviews columnists explain how Facebook investors might learn from Google counterparts.

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Breakingviews: Medical M&A muddle

The proposed $18 bln merger of healthcare data miner IMS and drug-trial manager Quintiles may save costs but lacks clear logic. Robert Cyran and Reynolds Holding pick through the de

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Breakingviews: Betting against hedge funds

With Warren Buffett winning a wager that stocks will do better than hedge funds, Rob Cox and Richard Beales wonder if hedgies' best strategy is to shrink to fit their high-fee niche.

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Breakingviews: Amazon primed

The online retailing colossus is being powered by its web services business. Rob Cyran and Jeffrey Goldfarb discuss the significance both to consumers and investors.

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