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As the COVID-19 pandemic limits New Year’s Eve festivities, restaurants are banding together online in hopes that a ‘shop local’ mentality can save the once-lucrative holiday for eateries.
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After ‘Not Amazon’ buoys local retail, restaurants unite in hope of New Year’s boost

Canada’s main stock index edged lower and U.S. markets were mixed heading into the last few hours of trading this year.
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S&P/TSX composite down, U.S. stocks mixed heading into final trades of 2020

An 11th-hour breakthrough in protracted negotiations will keep open Gibraltar’s crucial border with Spain following the United Kingdom’s full departure from the European Union, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya announced Thursday.
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U.K. reaches deal with Spain to keep open Gibraltar border

A golf course built by U.S. President Donald Trump in Scotland reported continued losses in 2019, accounts filed with the U.K. companies register and published on Thursday showed.
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Trump’s Scottish golf course posts more losses

On Thursday, the U.K. is finally moving out. At 11 p.m. London time — midnight at EU headquarters in Brussels — Britain will economically and practically leave the 27-nation bloc, 11 months after its formal political departure.
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Auld lang syne: New Year brings final U.K.-EU Brexit split

Britain’s long and sometimes acrimonious divorce from the European Union ended Thursday with an economic split that leaves the EU smaller and the U.K. freer but more isolated in a turbulent world.
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Britain ends long Brexit journey with economic break from EU

When it comes right down to finding wealth, the financial rituals you embrace can change your financial trajectory in life.
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Pattie Lovett-Reid: The 5 financial rituals that drive wealth

China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
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China gives conditional approval to Sinopharm vaccine

Ticketmaster agreed on Wednesday to pay a US$10 million fine to escape prosecution over criminal charges accusing the company of hacking into the computer system of a startup rival.
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Ticketmaster to pay US million fine over hacking charges

South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday requested a nine-year prison term for Samsung’s de facto chief, Lee Jae-yong, during his bribery retrial, where Lee apologized and vowed not to be implicated in similar allegations in an apparent plea for leniency.
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Prosecutors seek 9-year prison term for Samsung chief Lee