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Middle Eastern stocks slump as investors weigh Brexit fallout

  BLOOMBERG Middle Eastern stocks followed declines across global markets on uncertainty over how Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will affect economies in the region. Dubai’s DFM General Index lost 3.3 percent, the most since January, as Emaar Properties PJSC declined 4.7 percent. Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index fell 1.1 percent as more than 85 percent of ...

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Copper price tumble hits tens of thousands of Congolese

  Lubumbashi, DR Congo / AFP When 2016 rang in, Divin Lwamba, a street vendor with nine mouths to feed, says he was making up to $300 a day selling samosas in Lubumbashi’s main market. With meat and vegetable samosas flying off his cart almost faster than they were made, Lwamba says he could make enough cash in a single ...

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Safe-haven flows may benefit US as Brexit roils global mkts

  Bloomberg As markets reel from the U.K.’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, the U.S. may be one of the relatively safer ports in the global storm. The world’s biggest economy may be poised to attract a bit of the growth that would have otherwise taken place in the U.K., according to some economists. Companies looking for havens ...

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