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Singapore’s virus budget will challenge Hong Kong

With more than two-score coronavirus infections and the threat raised to the second-highest level of severity, Singapore may not want to leave anything to chance when the budget is unveiled next week. The city-state is building an early reputation for handling the crisis professionally. Hong Kong, which is getting brickbats for ineptitude, will take note of its arch-rival’s fiscal defense. ...

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Deutsche Bank is allowed back into the high-risk club

Deutsche Bank AG is back — at least if its ability to sell the riskiest type of debt is a yardstick. After a six-year hiatus marked by a flirtation with collapse, billions of euros of losses, multiple management changes and its biggest restructuring in decades, Deutsche is going into the deep end of fixed-income risk: a benchmark perpetual bond (known ...

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Nordstrom resale shop should help used clothes market

Nordstrom Inc.’s seven-story New York flagship at Broadway and 57th Street is home to a velvet-lined Nike boutique, a facial massage studio in the heart of the shoe floor and lots of expensive new merchandise. That’s how it’s always been at Nordstrom. But last month brought something new with the opening of See You Tomorrow, a luxury apparel resale boutique ...

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