Today’s Issue Cluster: Pharma
China – May: Home prices rise faster; +6.9% from +6.2% / R
Japan – May: Exports fall faster; -11.3% from -10.1% / R / B *
US – Economic Gauges Raise Specter of Recession WSJ *
World – EM catch-up set back ‘decades’ FT *
India – Modi Defends Efforts to Shake Up Economy WSJ *
RBI – Rajan to stand down FT / WSJ / NYT / R / B *
RBI – With Rajan Undone by Politics, Pressure Rises on Modi B / FT *
RBI – Attacks stoked talk of change FT / WSJ / FT * *
Mobiles – Micromax rounds on Chinese rivals over India sales FT *
Mobiles – Apple’s Challenges in China Underlined by Patent Dispute WSJ / FT *
NatGas – Japan Steps on Gas in Bid to Reshape LNG Market WSJ *
NatGas – Don’t Get Too Comfortable WSJ *
NatGas – US LNG Exports Are Benefiting South America the Most / b *
Pharma – India’s online start-ups prove a bitter pill FT *
Pharma – China Deal Will Slash Prices of Top-Selling Treatments WSJ
Pharma – Secret Deal Squeezes Mexico’s Drug Sector WSJ
Pharma – Price of cancer drugs vastly higher in US FT / E * *
Pharma – New Drugs in Testing to Combat ‘Superbugs’ WSJ
Pharma – ‘Time to take drug resistance seriously’ E * * *
Pharma – Countering antibiotic resistance e *
Pharma – Opioids: The problem of pain E *
Vegetarianism as a percentage of population in India motw *