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Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. said it will cut 504 employees from its corporate workforce as the drugstore chain moves more deeply into patient care.

Hedge funds are betting against copper on the London Metal Exchange for the first time since the early months of the pandemic — a sharp reversal from just weeks earlier after China’s disappointing recovery sent prices tumbling.

US inflation and consumer spending accelerated last month, highlighting steady price pressures and demand that will keep Federal Reserve policy makers tilted toward raising interest rates further.

Quebec is considering a policy change to welcome more immigrants, with one condition: it only wants French speakers.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should apologize for the UK’s treatment of gay and trans veterans, according to a government-commissioned review that details a “culture of homophobia” that pervaded the British military for decades.

(Bloomberg) — Mexico’s economy expanded at a slightly slower pace than the preliminary estimate in the first quarter, while still benefiting from strong remittance flows and record exports to the US.

Local debt has been the star performer among emerging-market bonds this year and its advantage over hard-currency notes is likely to persist, according to JPMorgan analysts.

Some of the most popular and acclaimed shows on TV will air their final episodes over the next few days, including HBO’s Succession and Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE to scale back purchases of Covid-19 vaccines by about a third after some member states said they were reluctant to pay for new deliveries amid an oversupply of shots after the pandemic started to wane.

Commodity markets are bracing for a long-awaited deal that would create a $25 billion behemoth capable of competing with the world’s biggest agricultural players.