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Alibaba buys a third of discount Chinese grocery chain

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will spend more than 2 billion yuan ($290 million) buying about a third of Sanjiang Shopping Club Co., picking up a slice of a regional Chinese discount supermarket chain with more than a million members. Shares of Sanjiang surged by its daily 10 percent limit on Monday, giving the Ningbo-based company a market value ...

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Supermarkets brace for great British food price hike

  Bloomberg Marmageddon, Toblerone-gate, shrinking fish fingers. Get ready for more food fights. The 12 percent slump in sterling following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union is feeding through to food. Prices may be as much as 5 percent higher this time next year, and some grocers are already feeling the pinch from higher costs for milk, cheese and ...

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Citigroup leads US banks higher in global systemic risk list

  Bloomberg Global banking regulators said US lenders present a bigger risk to the financial system than last year and should face stiffer capital requirements to ward off threats. Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. all face higher capital surcharges after they rose in the Financial Stability Board’s latest ranking of the most systemically important ...

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