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* LSE shareholders overwhelmingly support acquisition
(Recasts with result of vote)
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LONDON, Nov 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Kenya's
poor rural and slum communities, residents have lots to sell -
from home-grown tomatoes to their labour hoeing fields or
teaching children - but few people have enough cash to buy the
goods and services, reducing the incentive to produce...
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Europeans spent at least 11.6
billion euros ($12.7 billion) in 2017 on illegal cannabis
purchases, confirming marijuana as the largest drugs market in
the 28-country European Union, the bloc's anti-drugs agency said
on Tuesday.
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Chinese power generation group
SDIC Power Holdings plans to offer global
depositary receipts in London, it said on Tuesday, adding it
will look to use the proceeds to invest further in clean energy
and for global expansion.
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Bank Leumi, one of
Israel's two largest banks, on Tuesday reported lower than
expected third-quarter net profit,
showing the impact of a drop in inflation.
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Sri Lankan shares recovered on
Tuesday from a more than one-week closing low in the previous
session, as investors picked up beverage and manufacturing
shares.
** The benchmark stock index ended up 0.18% at 6,094.85,
edging higher from its lowest close since Nov. 15 hit on Monday.
The bourse gained 1.6%...
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* Firm raises doubt over ability to continue as going
concern
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Best Buy Co Inc beat market
expectations for quarterly same-store sales and forecast strong
earnings in the holiday quarter on Tuesday, as the consumer
electronics retailer's after-sale services helped pull in more
customers into stores.
Shares of the company rose 5.5% in premarket trading as
overall same-store sales rose 1.7% in...
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* Deal faces hurdles including court challenge
(Adds context on legal challenges, paragraphs 11-13)
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London Stock Exchange
shareholders met on Tuesday to vote on the exchange's $27
billion takeover of analytics and data company Refinitiv, a deal
designed to broaden LSE's trading business and make it a major
distributor of market data.