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NEW YORK/LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Corona Capital is a column updated throughout the day by Breakingviews columnists around the world with short, sharp pandemic-related insights.
ConAgra Foods production facility is seen in Oakdale, California in this December 18, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Fred Greaves/Files
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BE KIND, REWIND. Nothing says the digital age has arrived like the last gasp of a DVD rental chain. Family Video, a Midwest brick-and-mortar rental business, is shutting its doors after 42 years, having outlived Blockbuster, which, with the exception of one chain in Oregon, shuttered its doors some seven years ago. The long-running outfit, which started with Beta rentals and grew to over 800 locations at one point, cited Covid-19 as a cause of its demise.
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Shoppers are seen holding bags at Bicester Village, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bicester, Britain, June 18, 2020.
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” the protagonist inexplicably shoots an albatross that had hitherto acted as his ship’s lucky charm. In 2021 a similar fate is set to befall one of the United Kingdom’s golden geese: duty-free perks for foreign tourists. The government’s decision to upend a benefit that might have provided a handy post-pandemic boost could become a symbol of its messy break from the European Union.
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MILAN/NEW YORK/LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Corona Capital is a column updated throughout the day by Breakingviews columnists around the world with short, sharp pandemic-related insights.
The ticker and trading information for Blackstone Group is displayed at the post where it is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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- Private jets set
HIGH-FLYERS. Private equity firm Blackstone is betting that plutocrats will be back in the air before the rest of us. Shares in London-listed Signature Aviation – which provides fuelling and ground services to private jets and charter flights – jumped by 40% on Thursday after it revealed Steve Schwarzman’s firm made a $4.3 billion cash takeover offer. A proposal from a rival investment fund, Global Infrastructure Partners, was rejected.
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MILAN/NEW YORK/LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Corona Capital is a column updated throughout the day by Breakingviews columnists around the world with short, sharp pandemic-related insights.
The ticker and trading information for Blackstone Group is displayed at the post where it is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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- Private jets set
HIGH-FLYERS. Private equity firm Blackstone is betting that plutocrats will be back in the air before the rest of us. Shares in London-listed Signature Aviation – which provides fuelling and ground services to private jets and charter flights – jumped by 40% on Thursday after it revealed Steve Schwarzman’s firm made a $4.3 billion cash takeover offer. A proposal from a rival investment fund, Global Infrastructure Partners, was rejected.