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JD turns to Google, Walmart to build global e-comm empire

Bloomberg Richard Liu built an e-commerce giant in China by tapping into the nation’s appetite for technology. As his JD.com Inc. sets its sights on global expansion, he’s turning to others for help: Google and Walmart Inc. Just a few months after Google bought a $550 million stake in JD, Liu said he’s in the early stages of strategic planning …

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US stocks keep playing havoc with predictions post vacation

Bloomberg OK, Wall Street, back to work. The stock market crash you feared while guiltily snoozing through August on the beach may not have materialised but there are a few things you need to know about. First the good news. While firms from Goldman Sachs to Voya Asset Management warned everyone in July about the risk of late-summer turbulence and …

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Russia holds oil production near post-Soviet highs

Bloomberg Russia kept pumping oil near post-Soviet records last month as it reaped benefits from a deal with OPEC easing output caps and oil prices at an all-time high in rubles. The nation extracted an average of 11.21 million barrels of crude per day in August, according to data emailed by the Russian Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. Volumes were little …

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