Schrödinger, the drug discovery computing platform backed by Bill Gates, hedge fund manager David E. Shaw and Google Ventures, has closed its latest financing round at $110m, as investors back its new plan to develop its own drugs. New investors including Invus, Pavillion Capital, a subsidiary of Temasek, and... Read more
Australia’s ruling conservatives have won a “miracle” victory in the nation’s election stunning pollsters and the opposition Labor party, which failed to convince voters they should back its progressive agenda to tackle inequality and climate change. The surprise win — Labor has led almost all opinion polls for more... Read more
Dennis Muilenburg wanted to be “the world’s best aeroplane designer”, he once told a reporter. Growing up milking cows on his father’s farm in Sioux County, Iowa, he earned a coveted place studying aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, where a scholarship named after a former Boeing chief executive... Read more
Ian Lavery, chairman of the Labour party, has accused senior colleagues in the party of trying to mislead the public by using the phrase “confirmatory ballot” to describe a second referendum. His comments reflect the unease of some top Labour officials about a possible rerun of the 2016 vote.... Read more
Argentina’s presidential race took an unexpected turn on Saturday when former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that she had asked her former cabinet chief, Alberto Fernández, to run for the presidency in her place. The fiery populist was widely expected to run for the presidency herself, given her... Read more
Boeing has been forced to correct a flaw in the software of flight training simulators that are meant to reproduce the flying conditions of the 737 Max aircraft involved in two deadly crashes in the past six months. The disclosure of a problem with the simulator software is a... Read more
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister and leader of the far-right League, has led European nationalists in a theatrical mass rally in Milan, in which he condemned mainstream leaders for having “betrayed the founding fathers” of Europe. The rally, attended by France’s Marine Le Pen, the Alternative for Germany... Read more
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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign kickoff rally on Saturday in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA (MarketWatch) – Former Vice President Joe Biden sought to promote himself as a uniter of the country in a wide-ranging speech here on Saturday, even as he launched a blistering... Read more
Stock-market investors were in a rare mood during first-quarter earnings season, ready to deliver outsize punishment to shares of companies that disappointed on earnings while providing relatively meager rewards to companies that topped expectations. FactSet measured share price reaction over a four-day period beginning two days before a company... Read more
Kozanji temple in Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, is the owner of a set of rust-coloured 12th-century scrolls drawn in beautiful, expressively simple lines by an artist-monk. Often referred to in English as the Scrolls of Frolicking Animals, they depict, among other things, the antics of a mischievous rabbit, frog... Read more
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