What's News: Business & Finance -- WSJ
December 09 2019 - 03:02AM
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print edition of The Wall Street Journal (December 9, 2019).
A trial challenging the merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint will
test the federal government's dominant role in deciding whether
corporate rivals can join forces.
The S&P 500 is having its best run in six years, but
individual investors are fleeing stock funds at the fastest pace in
decades.
Investors and policy makers are bracing for new disruptions to
short-term cash markets going into the end of the year.
A microlending business of Chinese tech giant Ant has quietly
swelled into one of China's largest providers of personal credit
lines.
Big makers and users of plastic packaging are betting on a
recycling technology that so far has failed take off as
environmental pressures mount.
Hong Kong Airlines said it had worked out a rescue plan to let
it keep flying after a near-collapse.
Tesco is considering selling its supermarket businesses in
Thailand and Malaysia in deals that could value those operations at
up to $9 billion.
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December 09, 2019 02:47 ET (07:47 GMT)
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