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Breakingviews TV: ECB knockout

Who should follow Mario Draghi when his term running Europe’s central bank ends in October? One novel theory is to pick a successor by merit rather than politics. Swaha Pattanaik explains what that would mean, who’d be a favorite, and why such a sensib…

Breakingviews TV: Pay pals

Moving money is the new M&A fad. Global Payments’ $22 bln merger with Total System Services is the third big deal in the payments sector this year. As Tom Buerkle explains, reasonable terms and modest leverage leave these players well positioned in the…

Breakingviews TV: Modi magic

India’s prime minister was re-elected with a bigger majority. The scale of his win was a surprise. Una Galani and Pete Sweeney discuss why people like the strongman leader, his unsettling style of governance, and the economic priorities for the next fi…

Breakingviews TV: Boeing standby

Global regulators meeting to review a software fix for the 737 MAX have the airplane maker in a holding pattern. Tom Buerkle and Rob Cyran discuss how CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s failure to address the problem squarely could prolong the plane’s grounding, …

Breakingviews TV: Poor oversight

Two recent cases make it far harder to read U.S. regulators’ tea leaves: two D.C. agencies with differing views of the T-Mobile US-Sprint merger, and the story behind a judge’s ruling against Qualcomm. Antony Currie and Jennifer Saba explain why this i…