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American Express Co missed Wall
Street's fourth-quarter profit estimates on Thursday, as the
rate of customer spending slowed despite a strong U.S. holiday
sales season.

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Natural gas and oil firm Gulfport
Energy Corp said it would buy back $400 million of
shares on Thursday, just hours after a public demand to that
effect from hedge fund investor Firefly Value Partners.
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MADRID, Jan 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world has
made far too little progress on the global goals governments
agreed in 2015 to end poverty and hunger and tackle climate
change, with a rising tide of nationalism acting as a wrecking
ball, architects of the goals said on...
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Brazil's supreme court on
Thursday ordered Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors to temporarily
suspend a probe into suspicious payments made by the former
driver of President Jair Bolsonaro's son, whose lawyers
requested the injunction.
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China's envoy to Canada on
Thursday warned Ottawa there would be repercussions if it banned
technology firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from
supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, the latest blast in
a deepening bilateral dispute.
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Sears Holdings Corp Chairman
Eddie Lampert won a bankruptcy auction to buy the once iconic
U.S. retailer after presenting an improved offer of $5.2
billion, Sears said on Thursday, but creditors quickly moved to
oppose the deal.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief
Executive Jamie Dimon is receiving a 5 percent raise, bringing
his total 2018 compensation to $31 million, the company said in
a filing on Thursday.

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* Pound gains on hopes of second referendum on Brexit
(Updates with closing U.S. market)

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Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA)
may increase its investment in Britain during the coming period
if it finds suitable investment opportunities, Kuwaiti newspaper
Al-Rai reported on Thursday citing official sources.

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Brazil new government's
is set to propose a transition period of 12-20 years for its new
pension system under a proposed overhaul, according to a source
with knowledge of the plan.

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