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Sugar barons amass $8.2 billion fortune by inflating US prices

Bloomberg As Cuban refugees, the Fanjuls have a familiar story to tell. They fled the revolution. Fidel Castro’s forces seized everything they owned on the island, business interests, homes, a fortune in fine art. But they didn’t arrive in Florida in 1960 empty handed. Patriarch Alfonso Fanjul Sr., one of the world’s most prosperous sugar barons before Castro came onto …

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Vantiv to buy Worldpay Group for $10.4 billion

Bloomberg Vantiv Inc., the largest US merchant acquirer, agreed to buy e-commerce payments company Worldpay Group Plc for about $10.4 billion. The deal values each Worldpay share at 397 pence and the combined payment processing firm will seek a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange, according to a statement on Wednesday. Following the deal, the company will be called …

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Brexit talks difficult yet productive, says Davis

Bloomberg Last month’s second round of discussions on extricating Britain from the European Union produced a “significant step forward” on the thorny issue of citizens’ rights, even though the talks were at times tricky, Brexit Secretary David Davis said. In the July 17-20 talks in Brussels, negotiators focused on discussing the rights of EU citizens in Britain and those of …

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