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Chipmakers, Congress play $52b ‘chicken game’

  The global semiconductor industry has gone from imploring the US government to hand out corporate welfare, to threatening the cancellation of investments should the money not come through. They’re desperate moves that belie the tenuous economics upon which an American chip revival is being built, and Congress’s willingness to risk credibility to gain political points. Intel Corp pulled the ...

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Singapore’s tiny second airport eyes future as flying taxi hub

  Bloomberg Just 20 minutes north-west of Singapore’s Changi Airport — regularly voted the world’s best — is Seletar Airport, the city-state’s second, and far well less known, airfield. It’s predominantly where the super-rich land in their private jets. It’s also where the future of aviation could be taking off. The neighbourhood, more known for its laid-back cafes in restored ...

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Femsa to buy Valora for $1.2b to enter Europe

  Bloomberg Fomento Economico Mexicano agreed to buy Switzerland-based convenience store operator Valora for as much as $1.2 billion to expand into Europe. Femsa, as the company is known, offered 260 francs a share, a premium of 52% to the closing price, the companies said. Valora climbed as much as 51% to 258 francs in early Swiss trading. Based in ...

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