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Dec 2018
10m 52s

Friday, December 21

Financial Times
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The S&P 500 is on course for its worst December since 1931, the military is called in to deal with chaos at London's Gatwick airport and Malaysia targets Goldman Sachs for reparations over the 1MDB scandal. Plus, the FT's Aime Williams explains why the US is pulling troops out of Syria—and how that move has caused disarray in the Trump administration.

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