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Flexport is buying Shopify’s logistics fulfillment operations, including U.S. e-commerce platform Deliverr, setting up the freight company to add home-delivery services that would compete with…
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The latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0804 GMT – Mondi should see more price falls and destocking near term, but the market…
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Private-equity firm Apollo Global Management APO -0.54% is nearing a deal to buy industrial-parts manufacturer Arconic, ARNC…
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Cloud gaming is barely an actual business yet, but U.K. regulators want to make sure Microsoft never owns it. Their reasoning carries far greater implications than a deal that would give the Xbox maker control of “Call of Duty.”…
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Exxon Mobil has what Texans would call a “high class problem”—too much money and a richly-valued stock. Cash is piling up for all oil majors, but none as prolifically as Exxon. That adds pressure on the oil giant to…
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Pancreatic cancer is almost always fatal because it’s already in late stages by the time it’s caught. Imagine being able to diagnose it while it’s still at stage 1. That can now be done thanks to Grail, a company with a mission to…
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WASHINGTON—A U.K. tobacco company agreed to pay more than $635 million to resolve charges that it conspired to violate U.S. sanctions by selling cigarettes to North Korea in what Justice Department officials described as a brazen…
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ProPublica’s big scoop turned out to be a quarter-teaspoon. In an error-filled report last week, the opinionated news site got one point right: Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t disclose the 2014 sale of his one-third interest in…
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Glencore , one of the world’s largest coal miners and traders, wants more coal—just not in its backyard. An emerging battle for fellow coal heavyweight Teck Resources ’ assets says a lot about the curious position the black…
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The latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0539 GMT – Dechra Pharmaceuticals ’ possible offer from EQT values it at a…
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