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‘Amazon to pass Walmart in US retail sales in 2025’

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc will supplant Walmart Inc as the biggest US retailer by 2025, according to a new report, suggesting the e-commerce giant has too much momentum for Walmart to stop despite big investments in its own e-commerce offerings. By 2025, US shoppers will buy $632 billion worth of products at Amazon and retail afflilites including Whole Foods Market, surpassing ...

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Virgin Atlantic banks on UK travel plan to revive network

Bloomberg Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd said places tipped to be on a UK list of destinations set to reopen from mid-May could bring back a significant portion of its pre-coronavirus business, shrinking losses this year. The US, Israel and the Caribbean accounted for 80% of Virgin Atlantic’s 2019 network and could all feature on the list set to be revealed ...

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Inflation haunts stock traders in blockbuster earnings season

Bloomberg Overflowing cargo ships, snarled production lines, copper above $10,000 and a start to earnings season that’s smashing records. As developed economies reopen and the newly vaccinated embrace their pre-Covid ways, the global rebound is proving vigorous but messy. For equity investors, the most pressing question is whether the return of inflation spoils returns and eats into corporate profits. Accelerating ...

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