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Q: FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) -  Gucci-owner Kering (PRTP.PA)  plans to spin off German sports brand Puma (PUMG.DE) to the French conglomerate’s shareholders as  it  sharpens the group’s focus squarely on its luxury brands.
 Kering  said  it  planned to distribute 70 percent of Puma shares in kind to  its  investors  leaving  it  with only a 16 percent stake in the sportwear group  confirming an exclusive Reuters report.
 Kering  is a little more than 40 percent controlled by the French Pinault family  who would receive about 29 percent of the sporting goods company  while Puma’s free float would stand at about 55 percent.
Shedding Puma  meanwhile  would turn  Kering  into a pure player in the high-margin luxury business  where  it  rivals larger peers such as French conglomerate LVMH (LVMH.PA).
 “Kering  would dedicate  itself  entirely to the development of  its  luxury houses ”  Kering  Chairman and CEO Francois-Henri Pinault said in a statement.
Puma struggled for years after it was bought by Kering for 5.3 billion euros ($6.4 billion) in 2007  but recent improved performance has raised expectations that the French group would sell its stake this year.
Puma’s shares rose by 45 percent over the past year  bringing its market capitalisation to 5.3 billion euros  back at the level at which  Kering  bought.
 Kering  emerged as one of the big winners in a luxury goods revival last year as Chinese demand picked up  with a stellar turn at brand-of-the-moment Gucci helping earnings and other labels such as Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga.

A: Kering
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Q: Even after Senate Republicans scrapped the vote on  the Graham-Cassidy bill  this week  lead  sponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham  R-S.C.   said  he  remains optimistic about the legislation eventually passing because the missing votes were âactually more about process than substance.â
âWith more hearings  with regular order  weâre going to get 50 votes â  Graham  said during a press conference Tuesday. âWeâre going to fulfill our promise.â
Former Sen. Rick Santorum  who has for some reason or another partnered with  Graham  in this effort  told The Intercept on Tuesday afternoon that  he  is confident Sen. Lisa Murkowski  a key Republican holdout from Alaska  will come around next year if  the bill  goes through the normal committee process. âI know having talked to Lisa just a couple hours ago  she thinks itâs a good idea and she thinks the idea will stand up under public scrutiny  and it makes it an easier vote for everybody â  he  said.
 Graham  and  his  co-conspirators previously said  they  would demand that tax cuts and health care reform be lumped together if  they  failed to make headway on health care in September. But on Tuesday   Graham  changed course  saying  he  is now willing to let tax reform go ahead on its own because  he  had been unaware how complex tying the two together would be. Then  in the spring   Graham  said   he  will insist on a new budget resolution that allows for another crack at repeal using a 50-vote threshold â what is called budget reconciliation in the Senate.
In her statement released after the bill was officially yanked from the floor  Murkowski did indeed express openness to the framework Graham and co-sponsor Sen. Bill Cassidy had constructed. âI recognize the status quo with health care in this country is unacceptable. Giving control back to the states and flexibility are ideas I can get behind â she said. âBut substance matters and the ability to validate data matters.â
This is where it gets macabre. McCain  a key ânoâ vote  is living with a brain cancer diagnosis that is nearly always fatal. The same cancer took the life of his good friend  Sen. Ted Kennedy  and almost upended the push to pass the Affordable Care Act  after Scott Brown filled his seat. Were McCain to lose his battle with cancer  Arizonaâs GOP governor would appoint a Republican rubber stamp. Depending on the circumstances  some Republicans  such as McCainâs best friend Graham  may oppose rushing forward with repeal on pure human decency grounds.

A: Graham
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Q: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - One of the most dramatic moments in an upcoming trade secrets trial between Alphabet Incâs Waymo and Uber will likely come when the former chief of Uberâs self-driving car unit takes the witness stand  as he is expected to repeatedly refuse to answer questions.
 Waymo  sued Uber Technologies Inc last year  claiming that  former Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski  downloaded more than 14 000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self-driving truck company  called Otto  which Uber acquired soon after.
 Levandowski   regarded as a visionary in autonomous technology  is not a defendant in the case but is on  Waymo âs witness list.  Waymo  has accused Uber of benefiting from  Waymo  technology that  it  says Uber acquired through  Levandowski . Uber has denied Waymoâs allegations and has argued that the data in the files were not trade secrets.
During a pretrial deposition in April  Waymo lawyers questioned Levandowski for hours about allegations that he took Waymoâs trade secrets. He declined to answer any questions about his time at both companies  citing constitutional protections against self-incrimination over 300 times  according to a deposition transcript. Levandowski has never publicly addressed the allegations of taking the documents and law enforcement has not charged anyone with their theft.
Uber  Waymo and Miles Ehrlich  an attorney for Levandowski  declined to comment.
Elizabeth Rowe  a trade secret expert at the University of Florida Levin College of Law  said Levandowski refusing to answer questions on the stand  and the judgeâs instructions around it  would hurt Uberâs case because it would reinforce  Waymoâs  arguments that  he  was deceptive and took their information.
To counter  Levandowskiâs  expected refusal to answer questions  Rowe said Uber should tell jurors in opening statements that the companyâs actions and those of Levandowski are separate  stressing that Uber fired the engineer last May.
Alsup granted Waymoâs request for a pretrial injunction in May  prohibiting Levandowski from working on Lidar  a sensor technology for self-driving cars that is the crux of the current litigation.
If  Waymo  persuades a jury that Uber stole  its  trade secrets  it said it would seek a permanent injunction to prohibit Uber from using them in the future.
Other tech executives who could testify at trial include former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick  Benchmark venture capitalist Bill Gurley  and Waymo CEO John Krafcik  court documents showed.

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Waymo
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