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vestigation by 48 states, the

District of Columbia, Puerto

Rico and Guam, said the com-

pany’s actions suggest it is

withholding information that

could be damaging.

“Every indication right now

is they don’t believe that

they’re clean because they

don’t act in any way like they

are,” Mr. Paxton said.

A Google spokeswoman said

the company has cooperated

with the probe and that such

discussions over access to in-

formation are common during

investigations. She also raised

concerns that the Texas-led in-

vestigation has been advised

by outside business consul-

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Google Resists State

Demands in Ad Probe

WASHINGTON—Google is

resisting efforts to surrender

emails, text messages and

other documents sought by

state investigators probing

possible anticompetitive prac-

tices, according to records and

interviews.

Google, a unit of Alphabet

Inc., also hasn’t agreed to a

waiver that would give the co-

alition of state attorneys gen-

eral access to documents ob-

tained by the Justice

Department for its own probe,

according to a person familiar

with the situation.

Texas Attorney General Ken

Paxton, who is leading the in-

BYJOHND.MCKINNON

a system architect for Badger

Technologies of Nicholasville,

Ky. “It just seems like it cheap-

ens the whole thing.”

Then he noticed children

waving and running up to

Marty, which resembles a 6-

foot-3-inch-tall upside-down

hammer with blue flashing

lights. He realized the humaniz-

ing touch addressed a need en-

gineers hadn’t fully anticipated:

helping skeptical shoppers feel

comfortable with an automaton.

The googly eyes helped give

Please turn to page A

Andy Callahan and his fellow

engineers spent years building

a robot that could roam gro-

cery-store aisles counting soup

cans and scanning for spills

while dodging shopping carts.

They named it Marty.

When a worker at a Giant

supermarket in Harrisburg,

Pa., stuck googly eyes on one

of the robots, the engineers

rolled their eyes. “We built

this sophisticated piece of

hardware,” says Mr. Callahan,

BYKATEKING

The Robot in Aisle Five Isn’t

Stalking You—No, Really

iii

Automatons are patrolling supermarkets

looking for spills, dodging spooked humans

10-year

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Treasury yields

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India Gears Up for Festivities to Mark Visit by Trump

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PREPARATIONS MOUNT: Indian troops take part in a rehearsal ahead of President Trump’s first visit to India next week,

which will aim to highlight his ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi rather than tensions over economic issues. A

LIFE IN EXILE

Carlos Ghosn plots

his counterattack

from Lebanon.B

How to Change

Anyone’s Mind

REVIEW

WSJ

The Shame of

Hair Loss

Is Receding

OFF DUTY

Last month, 109 people gath-

ered in a Singapore hotel for

an international sales confer-

ence held by a U.K.-based com-

pany that makes products to

analyze gas.

When the attendees flew home, some un-

wittingly took the coronavirus with them.

The virus had a 10-day head start on

health authorities who, after belatedly learn-

ing a 41-year-old Malaysian participant was

infected, began a desperate effort to track the

infection through countries including South

Korea, England and France. Health investiga-

tors have found at least 20 people in six

Asian and European countries who were sick-

ened, some who attended the conference and

others who came in contact with participants.

A globalized economy, one

that’s far more integrated than

in the early 2000s when the

SARS virus broke out, is compli-

cating the task of responding to

epidemics.

After this one conference alone, 94 partic-

ipants left Singapore, authorities determined.

Some joined Lunar New Year dinners. Others

went on vacation, one to an Alpine ski town.

They had eaten, taken car rides and shared a

roof with others who then boarded more

planes to places the virus hadn’t yet reached.

Health officials used international commu-

nications channels to share names of the po-

Please turn to page A

ByNiharika Mandhana

andFeliz Solomonin

Singapore andEun-

Young Jeongin Seoul

EXCHANGE

 More coverage on pages A6, A7 and B

Money Woes Vex Democrats

Cash is tight for some

presidential candidates

heading into the

Nevada caucuses

Wells Fargo & Co. will pay

$3 billion to settle investiga-

tions by the Justice Depart-

ment and the Securities and

Exchange Commission into its

long-running fake accounts

scandal, closing the door on a

major portion of the legal

problems that for years have

beset one of the country’s

largest banks.

The deal resolves civil and

criminal investigations. It in-

cludes a so-called deferred

prosecution agreement, in

which the Justice Department

reserves the right to pursue

criminal charges. The bank has

to satisfy the government’s re-

quirements, including its con-

tinued cooperation with fur-

ther investigations, over the

next three years.

Friday’s settlement is a vic-

tory for Charles Scharf, an

outsider who took over as

chief executive in October and

was tasked with fixing the cri-

sis that has claimed two CEOs.

“The conduct at the core of

today’s settlements—and the

past culture that gave rise to

it—are reprehensible and

wholly inconsistent with the

values on which Wells Fargo

was built,” Mr. Scharf said in a

statement. “We are commit-

ting all necessary resources to

ensure that nothing like this

Please turn to page A

BYBENEISEN

Wells

Fargo

Settles

U.S.

Probes

Bank will pay $3 billion

to resolve government

investigations into its

fake-account scandal

Wary Investors Seek Safety

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note traded below the

three-month yield this week amid worries over global growth.B

A Singapore Conference

Spreads Coronavirus Globally

Virus hunters scurry to Malaysia, South Korea, the Alps, a British pub

Four of the top six Demo-

cratic presidential campaigns

are at a major disadvantage on

the airwaves heading into next

month’s Super Tuesday con-

tests, a sign the race could be

shaken up as it moves beyond

Saturday’s Nevada caucuses.

Billionaire Michael

Bloomberg is already spending

about $160 million on TV and

radio ads across the 14 states

that weigh in on March 3,

while Sen. Bernie Sanders also

has a major paid-media pres-

ence in those states, with $

million in ads.

But neither Joe Biden nor

Pete Buttigieg had invested in

a single Super Tuesday com-

mercial as of Friday night, ac-

cording to ad tracker Kantar/

CMAG, while Sens. Amy

Klobuchar and Elizabeth War-

ren combined have put less

than $2 million into Super

Tuesday ads.

Federal Election Commis-

sion reports filed late this

week, which cover finance ac-

tivity in the month of January,

help explain the absence of

paid media for much of the

2020 Democratic field: As Feb-

ruary began, Mr. Biden, Mr.

Buttigieg, Ms. Klobuchar and

Ms. Warren each had less than

half as much in the bank as Mr.

Sanders did, having spent

heavily ahead of the Feb. 3

Iowa caucuses and Feb. 11 New

Hampshire primary.

None had a war chest close

to the $460 million Mr.

Bloomberg, a former New York

City mayor, had put into his

campaign by the end of last

month.

After a rough-and-tumble

Las Vegas debate Wednesday

night that saw the five other

top candidates largely take aim

at Mr. Bloomberg, Nevadans

gathered to caucus on Satur-

day at a crucial time in the

largely unsettled race.

Mr. Sanders, of Vermont,

has a double-digit lead in na-

tional polling, with no one yet

to emerge as a decisive front-

runner among the more cen-

trist candidates. Mr.

Bloomberg isn’t on the ballot

in Nevada, having opted to

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BYJULIEBYKOWICZ

ANDCHADDAY

 Sanders is warned of Russian

bid to aid his campaign....... A

 Bloomberg to release women

from NDAs.................................. A

Wells Fargo will pay
$3 billion to settle investi-
gations by the Justice De-
partment and SEC into the
bank’s long-running fake
accounts scandal.A

Google is resistingde-
mands to surrender emails,
text messages and other doc-
uments sought by state in-
vestigators probing possible
anticompetitive practices.A

Stocks fellas investors
flocked to traditionally safer
assets. The S&P 500, Dow
and Nasdaq lost 1.1%, 0.8%
and 1.8%, respectively.B

Boeing has foundde-
bris inside the fuel tanks
of about two-thirds of un-
delivered 737 MAX air-
craft inspected so far.B

Securities regulatorsare
investigating whether Al-
tria adequately disclosed to
shareholders the risks when it
took a 35% stake in Juul.B

EBay is taking stepsto-
ward a potential sale of its
classified-ads business,
which could be worth
roughly $10 billion.B

Fox has expressedinter-
est in acquiring Tubi, while
Comcast’s NBCUniversal is
in advanced talks to acquire
Vudu from Walmart.B

The SEC rejecteda plan
from Cboe to introduce a
“speed bump,” or split-
second trading delay, to
one of its exchanges.B

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he globalized economy,
one that is far more in-
tegrated than in the early
2000s when the SARS virus
broke out, is complicating
the task of responding to
the coronavirus.A1, A6, A

The U.S. andthe Afghan
Taliban are preparing to
sign a historic peace deal
next week if the two sides
succeed in reducing vio-
lence in Afghanistan over
the next seven days.A

U.S. officials havein-
formed Sanders that Russia
is actively trying to support
his campaign as part of Mos-
cow’s broader effort to inter-
fere in the 2020 election.A
Bloomberg saidhe would
release from nondisclosure
agreements three women
who made allegations
against him in lawsuits over
the past three decades.A
Biden has losta sub-
stantial part of his black-
voter support and is now
running about even with
Sanders, a new WSJ/NBC
News poll found.A

Trump saidthat he is
considering four candi-
dates to be his permanent
director of national intelli-
gence, after removing act-
ing chief Maguire.A

The Weinstein jurywill
resume deliberations Mon-
day after suggesting that
it had deadlocked on two
charges against him.A

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