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Air France-KLM, BA may face multi-million EU antitrust fines

  Bloomberg Air France-KLM Group, British Airways and a handful of other carriers may face multimillion-euro antitrust fines from European Union regulators within weeks after attempts to broker a settlement failed, according to people familiar with the case. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is seeking to re-impose penalties of almost 800 million euros ($844 million) for a cargo cartel that ...

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Starbucks loses market share

  Bloomberg Starbucks Corp., facing heavy competition, mobile-ordering hiccups and even boycott threats, has been losing U.S. customers to rivals this winter. In February, the company ceded market share to other chains, according to data from xAd Inc., a research firm that uses location signals from mobile phones to measure customer traffic. Starbucks’ share declined to 11 percent among the ...

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Shell cuts debt with $7.25bn sale of Canada oil sands

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc will sell almost all of its production assets in Canada’s oil sands in a $7.25 billion deal that cuts debt and reduces involvement in one of the most environmentally damaging forms of fossil-fuel extraction. All of the company’s oil-sands interests apart from a 10 percent stake in the Athabasca mining project will be sold ...

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