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INBRIEF
By Benedikt Kammel

Bloomberg Businessweek February 10, 2020

○ With the new
coronavirus
outbreak gripping
China, investors
arepullingout.

○ Argentina is renegotiating
its debt to avoid another
sovereign default. The
country’s largest province
offered better terms to
bondholderswhoagree
toaccepta delayed
payment.PresidentAlberto
Fernández,whotookoffice
in December,mustdighis
countryoutofa debtholeof

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○ Worldline,the
Frenchpayment
company,agreed
tobuylocalrival
Ingenico.

○ Germany’sReimanns,the
familybehindthesprawling
coffeeempirethatincludes
Caribou,Peet’s,andother
brands,is considering
anIPOofthebusiness,
according to people familiar
with the plans. A sale, which
could raise about €3 billion
in Amsterdam, would be
one of the biggest IPOs in
Europe in more than a year.

○ The U.S. is divided—
between those who lean
Democrat and Republican—
on the news sources they
know and trust, says a Pew
ResearchCenterstudy.

Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, who led his party’s impeac
managers, made a final plea to senators to convict and removePres
Trump on charges that he tried to rig the 2020 elections in hisfavor

Thecountry’s$7.5trillionstockmarket
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ofsharesfellbytheirdailylimitatthe
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The €7.8 billion ($8.6 billion) deal
will form one of the world’s largest
payment-services providers. Europe’s
biggest transaction so far this year,
it follows a spate of other major
purchases in the consolidating
electronic-payments market.

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of each outlet who say they trust its
political and election coverage*

○ Tesla is having a blowout
2020, its stock more than
doubling since the start of
the year before dropping
sharply on Feb. 5.

○ Pete Buttigieg emerged with a
narrow lead from the Iowa caucus that
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