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Alibaba’s Daraz fires 11% of staff

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Daraz group is cutting 11% of jobs to weather a slump in online commerce, joining a growing roster of tech names retrenching to weather a global downturn. The Pakistani company, which Alibaba acquired from Rocket Internet in 2018, has quintupled active shoppers to more than 15 million over the past five years. But in ...

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London house prices flatline in worst performance since 2019

  Bloomberg London house prices flatlined, recording their worst performance in more than three years, one of the UK’s biggest mortgage lenders said. The cost of an average home in the capital hit £530,396 ($637,720) in January, unchanged from a year earlier, according to Halifax. This was the slowest rate of growth since November 2019, when prices fell by 1% ...

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Apollo in talks for stake in Credit Suisse First Boston, says WSJ

  Bloomberg Apollo Global Management Inc. is among investors showing interest in taking a stake in Credit Suisse Group AG’s new investment bank unit, as the lender continues to seek investors to help fund its spin-out, the Wall Street Journal reported. Talks with Apollo are continuing and could still fall apart, the paper reported, without giving further details. Bloomberg reported ...

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