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Aug 2022
26m 38s

Cineworld struggles to recover from the ...

Bbc World Service
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The second largest cinema chain in the world has seen its shares decline by as much as 80% in a matter of days after fears it might file for bankruptcy in the US spread across the markets. We talk to Wall Street Journal's Alexander Gladstone, who broke the story. The markets are bracing for the speech the chair of the Federal Reserve Board, Jerome Powell, w ... Show More
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