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Wall Street’s £5bn London Shopping Spree: The DCC Takeover Explained
America is treating the London Stock Market like a discount rack. In the latest shopping spree, US private equity companies just snatched up energy giant ‘DCC’ for £5.75 billion - proving that if public markets won't value a streamlined business properly, American companies happily will.
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