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Retailers eager to aid antitrust probe against Amazon, Google

Bloomberg A leading US retail group, whose members include Walmart Inc, is eager to aid antitrust enforcers that are poised to investigate whether Amazon.com and Alphabet’s Google are harming competition. The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RLIA), which also represents Target Corp and Best Buy Co among others, said it’s prepared to present their concerns to the Justice Department and the ...

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‘EU to exit trade pact if Brazil drops climate goals’

Bloomberg European Union countries won’t ratify a free-trade deal with South America if Brazil doesn’t take measures to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions targets it agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord, French Ecology Minister Francois de Rugy said. Top EU officials reached a breakthrough in market-opening negotiations with counterparts from the Mercosur group of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and ...

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Britain house prices stuck in a Brexit rut

Bloomberg UK house-price growth remained subdued last month as values in London and the southeast continued to fall, according to Nationwide Building Society. June saw a year-on-year increase of just 0.5 percent, a seventh straight month below 1 percent. That compares with increases of around 2 percent a year earlier. The uncertainty arising from Britain’s departure from the European Union ...

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