Coca-Cola’s new chief financial officer John Murphy has just channeled his inner currency trader for a somewhat contrarian call on the U.S. dollar.

“We think the dollar is at the — towards the end of a strong cycle, and hence, we think that we're in for a benign environment over the next year, 1.5 years,” Murphy told Wall Street analysts on Coca-Cola’s second quarter earnings call on Tuesday.

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I bet that almost every millennial in Canada has heard from their parents that renting a home is throwing money away, and they need to buy as soon as possible. I have good news. Renting is not throwing money away, at least not any more than owning is.

To make a fair comparison between renting and owning we need to compare the unrecoverable costs of each option.

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Robert Mueller’s appearance on Capitol Hill marked a historic day in American politics. Former Justice Department officials John Carlin and Mary McCord, both of whom worked under Democratic and Republican administrations, talk to Judy Woodruff about the multiple agendas on display, how Mueller avoided being used by either party and his "memorable" characterization of the president’s credibility.

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An executive at one of the nation’s largest drug distribution companies said under questioning recently that the business has no obligation to the public when it comes to the amount of prescription opioid painkillers it ships.

That’s one of the exchanges included in thousands of pages of court documents, including depositions and internal emails, made public this week in lawsuits brought against the pharmaceutical industry over the nation’s deadly opioid crisis.

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Breast implant maker Allergan Inc. issued a worldwide recall Wednesday for certain textured models after regulators alerted the company to a heightened cancer risk with the devices.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it called for the removal after new information showed Allergan’s Biocell breast implants with a textured surface were tied to the vast majority of cases of a rare form of lymphoma. The move follows similar action in France, Australia, Canada and other nations.

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North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, the first weapons launches in more than two months as North Korean and U.S. officials struggle to restart nuclear negotiations.

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles fired from around the North’s eastern coastal town of Wonsan flew about 430 kilometers (270 miles) before landing in the waters off the country’s east coast.

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop denying asylum to anyone who transits through another country to reach the U.S. border, marking the latest legal defeat for a president waging an all-out battle to stem the flow of migrants entering from Mexico.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco came hours after another federal judge in Washington, D.C., let the 9-day-old policy stand. The California judge’s preliminary injunction halts the policy while the lawsuit plays out in court.

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Facebook survived its latest brush with U.S. privacy regulators, at the cost of a record $5 billion fine and other restrictions imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. But it’s far from home free.

While the company looks set to prosper in the wake of the FTC case, it faces a series of other investigations into its privacy practices in Europe and across the U.S. Concerns over the limits of the just-settled probe could fuel efforts to craft tougher privacy laws at the state and federal level.

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How much is your child’s health worth? The answer coming from the leadership of the US Environmental Protection Agency is: not that much.

The EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, this week confirmed what many Americans already know: when the Trump administration weighs the competing interests of corporate profits versus public health, the corporations win, hands down.

Read more at The Guardian.

Hospital admissions for deadly sepsis have risen by one third in young people in two years, NHS figures show, leading experts to warn parents that it is now a bigger threat than meningitis.

New NHS Digital data shows for all ages, cases have doubled from 350,344 recorded hospital admissions with a first or second diagnosis of sepsis in 2017/18, up from 169,125 two years earlier.

Read more at Telegraph.