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Copper price tumble hits tens of thousands of Congolese

  Lubumbashi, DR Congo / AFP When 2016 rang in, Divin Lwamba, a street vendor with nine mouths to feed, says he was making up to $300 a day selling samosas in Lubumbashi’s main market. With meat and vegetable samosas flying off his cart almost faster than they were made, Lwamba says he could make enough cash in a single ...

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Safe-haven flows may benefit US as Brexit roils global mkts

  Bloomberg As markets reel from the U.K.’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, the U.S. may be one of the relatively safer ports in the global storm. The world’s biggest economy may be poised to attract a bit of the growth that would have otherwise taken place in the U.K., according to some economists. Companies looking for havens ...

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British brace for gloom and doom after Brexit

  AP The British were warned for weeks that a vote to leave the European Union would result in economic pain. Now they’ll find out whether it will. UK financial leaders are scrambling to reassure households, businesses and investors that they can contain the doom and gloom they had predicted in case of a British exit, or Brexit. The pound ...

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