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  • Trading on Wall Street was temporarily halted early March 9, 2020 as US stocks joined a global rout on crashing oil prices and mounting worries over the coronavirus. Wire photography: Timothy A. Clary—AFP via Getty ImagesFinance

    Here are two of the biggest losers from the Saudi Arabia oil price war

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  • Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks with apprentices at the Curzon Street railway station construction site in Birmingham earlier this month. The government’s new immigration policy would limit the flow of unskilled labor in the country, possibly impacting the construction sector. Wire photography: Eddie Keogh—WPA Pool/Getty Images.International

    Britain is closing its borders to low-skilled labor. Why economists say this is a bad idea

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  • Pedestrian pass a HSBC Holdings Plc bank branch in London, U.K. The bank announced big job cuts as it downsizes in Europe and the U.S. and pivots to Asia. Wire photography: Hollie Adams—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    HSBC plans to slash 35,000 jobs in the U.S. and Europe as it pivots to Asia

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  • Bernard Arnault, billionaire and chief executive officer of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, delivers full year earnings in Paris, France on Jan. 28, 2020.Finance

    Luxury goods mogul Bernard Arnault was briefly crowned ‘world’s richest man.’ Then coronavirus struck

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  • Pedestrains wear face masks while passing the Tiffany & Co. luxury goods store at Times Square in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong, China. The region is a crucial market luxury goods brands, and the biggest names are reporting an impact on sales.Finance

    SARS battered the luxury goods sector in 2003. Why coronavirus could be worse. Far worse

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  • Balázs Boros and Grant Fuller (right), are the co-founders of Irithmics, a British startup that’s building an AI-powered tool that could make virtually any investor an activist investor.Finance

    Click here to oust the board— Inside the A.I. startup that’s transforming activist investing

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  • Cows stand in a pen at the Green Week agricultural trade fair on January 17, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. A controversial new proposal to tax beef, poultry and pork is gaining ground in the EU.Environment

    Looking to cut emissions, Europe eyes a ‘sustainability’ tax on meat

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  • An illuminated logo sits on a wall at the Carlsberg A/S headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2019. On Tuesday, Carlsberg reported strong 2019 growth but warned the coronavirus outbreak is beginning to weigh on operations in its vital China market.International

    ‘Significantly impacted’: World’s biggest brewers tally costs of coronavirus outbreak as beer sales suffer

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  • Quarterly Investment Guide 2020-7green_articleFinance

    Chasing returns: 12 lessons for real estate investors

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  • Participants ring the bell to mark the initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco at the Fairmont Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December. 2019. On Monday, the company held a year-end webcast with analysts, outlining its strategy to win the oil price war. Wire photography: Matthew Martin—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    U.S.-Iran standoff pushes Saudi Aramco shares into correction territory—and analysts expect it to drop further

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  • LVMH acquisition of Tiffany was part of a Q4 surge in M&A activity.Finance

    The Year in M&A: ‘Super Mega’ Deals and a Fourth-Quarter Surge Put Dealmakers on Top in 2019

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  • Boeing 737 Max Planes Sit Idle As Company Continues To Work On Software Glitch That Contributed To Two Fatal Jetliner CrashesFinance

    Boeing’s Overseas Airline Customers and Suppliers Sink on the Decision to Halt the 737 MAX

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  • The UK Wakes Up To A Majority Conservative GovernmentFinance

    The Markets Cheer a Tory Victory—Pound, Bond Yields and Bluechips Soar in the U.K. and Beyond

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  • Participants ring the bell to mark the initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco at the Fairmont Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December. 2019. On Monday, the company held a year-end webcast with analysts, outlining its strategy to win the oil price war. Wire photography: Matthew Martin—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Saudi Aramco Shares Soar in Debut, Closing in on the Kingdom’s Coveted $2 Trillion Valuation

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  • Saudi Arabia Approves IPO of Worlds Most Profitable CompanyFinance

    On the Eve of the Saudi Aramco IPO, Talk of a $2 Trillion Valuation Gains Momentum. Skeptics Aren’t Buying It

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