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U.S. trade offensive takes out WTO as global arbiter

U.S. disruption of the global economic order reaches a major milestone on Tuesday as the World Trade Organization (WTO) loses its ability to intervene in trade wars, threatening the future of the Geneva-based body.



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Exclusive: Malaysia's Mahathir hopeful of 1MDB settlement with Goldman soon

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is hopeful of reaching an out-of-court settlement with Goldman Sachs over the 1MDB scandal soon, but that compensation of "one point something billion" dollars offered by the bank was too small.



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Domino's Pizza chairman Stephen Hemsley to step down

Domino's Pizza Group on Tuesday said its long-serving Chairman Stephen Hemsley will step down from the board, four months after the British pizza delivery chain announced retirement of its chief executive officer.



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BlackRock Investment Institute 'modestly positive' on risk assets for 2020

BlackRock Investment Institute said on Tuesday it was cautiously rotating into cyclical assets, Japanese equities and emerging markets.



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Oil prices drop as trade war concerns haunt market

Oil prices slipped for a second straight session on Tuesday as a slowing global demand outlook outweighed OPEC's deal with associated producers last week to deepen output cuts in 2020.



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EU antitrust regulators mull tougher line against tech giants

EU antitrust regulators are considering taking a tougher line against tech giants by forcing them to do more to ensure a level playing field, a senior European Commission official said on Tuesday, a move which could affect Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.



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'Symmetric,' now a Fedspeak staple, may point to endgame for U.S. framework debate

After 14 conferences, a couple dozen research papers and presentations and some very dense math, the Federal Reserve's hunt for a better way to reach its inflation target may boil down to a single word: symmetric.



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Non-Saudi investors get 23% of Aramco IPO institutional tranche

Non-Saudi investors in oil giant Saudi Aramco's initial public offering have been allocated 23.1% of the institutional tranche, one of the lead banks working on the transaction said on Tuesday.



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Drowning in uncertainty: Trade questions slow investment, squeeze profits across U.S.

From a denim plant in rural Georgia to a St. Paul, Minneapolis loudspeaker maker, nagging uncertainty over when President Donald Trump's trade wars might end, if ever, is confounding many U.S. manufacturers.



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Cboe buys EuroCCP to bolster Dutch EU base after Brexit

Cboe Global Markets said on Tuesday it would take full control of EuroCCP, Europe's largest clearing house for stock trades, to bolster its post-Brexit base in Amsterdam and diversify into derivatives.



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Irish court lifts restriction on Ryanair profit target

An Irish court on Tuesday withdrew a ban on reporting a reference to Ryanair's profit after tax target for the airline's 2020 financial year contained in a 2018 share option scheme after the airline said the order was not needed.



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Britain's Lloyds criticized for mistreating victims of major fraud

Lloyds Banking Group has been heavily criticized for mishandling a compensation scheme for victims of one of Britain's biggest banking scandals in a report published on Tuesday.



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Dollar General to sell CBD cosmetics in select Tennessee and Kentucky stores

Discount store chain Dollar General Corp said on Tuesday it would sell cannabidiol (CBD) cosmetic products in more than 1,000 stores in Tennessee and Kentucky, as demand for the products grows.



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World stocks sink as tariff deadline approaches

Global stock markets fell for a second day on Tuesday, as caution over a Dec. 15 deadline for the next round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports weakened risk appetite and limited outsized market moves.



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Netflix could lose four million U.S. subscribers in 2020: brokerage

Needham and Co was the fourth Wall Street brokerage in two months to cut its rating for Netflix Inc on Tuesday, arguing competition from new streaming services could lead to the loss of 4 million premium U.S. subscribers next year.



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