The Item Club said that unresolved worries about the global economy, with Greece a major threat to the financial system and the Republic of Ireland a particular worry to UK banks, were likely to hold back UK business investment.

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It is an elite gathering of European economists and business leaders, and for two days they have just one item on the agenda: The state of the global economy.

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Note: This is the In Brief item I wrote for the May 9 issue of Forbes, featuring the Global 2, 000 Best Companies list.

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Following the Zytiga presentation and discussion, the board took up the next item on its agenda: Should the company move ahead with adding its internally developed Global Aquatic Ingredient Assessment, GAIA for short, to the Earthwards framework?

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