Smith in May pledged to pay off the student loans of Morehouse College’s graduating class, a gift of about $34 million for more than 400 students.
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In April, Rappi received as much as $1 billion, the largest venture capital investment in a Latin American company.
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In April one of his paintings, expected to sell at auction for about $1 million, went for $14.8 million instead.
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Jenner is the world’s youngest—and Gen Z’s first—billionaire entrepreneur.
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The record label and film production company’s YouTube channel became the world’s most popular and now has 119 million subscribers.
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San Miguel won a bid in May to acquire a majority stake in Holcim Philippines Inc., the country’s largest cement maker, a purchase that will help it build a 734 billion-peso ($14.4 billion) airport, the biggest infrastructure project in the nation’s history.
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In June she became the youngest person to lead a Danish government, then two months later drew President Trump’s ire by saying Greenland wasn’t for sale.
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The restaurant’s stock price is up about 75% this year and traded at a record high after it rebounded from a food-safety crisis.
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Disney+, the company’s new streaming service, drew 10 million subscribers after launching in November, sending the stock to a record high.
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After two shootings at his stores claimed 24 lives this summer, McMillon discontinued sales of bullets that are used in both handguns and some assault-style weapons, a decision with major repercussions given that Walmart had been selling 20% of ammunition in the U.S. and will now only sell 6% to 9%.
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With 25 medals, she’s the most decorated athlete in the history of the sport’s world championships.
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Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame became the top-grossing film of all time, with ticket sales of more than $2.8 billion.
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This year, investors added more than $214 billion into all Vanguard funds, second only to asset management industry leader BlackRock Inc.
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The researchers unveiled the first picture of a black hole in April.
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After Flatt acquired a majority stake in distressed debt specialist Oaktree Capital Management LP in March, Brookfield became the second-largest alternative-asset manager in the world with more than $500 billion in its portfolio.
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Her group is tackling voter suppression in 20 battleground states before next year’s elections.
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Her $5.1 billion acquisition of cancer-drug specialist Tesaro Inc., completed in January, made lucrative oncology therapies key to the company’s future.
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Shopify’s shares have more than doubled this year, adding about $21 billion in market value to the e-commerce company.
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As Europe’s chief Brexit negotiator, she got all 27 remaining EU governments to unite behind an accord, and now she’ll need her dealmaking skills to ensure that tariffs don’t crush the bloc’s economy.
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She’s the first woman to lead the studio founded by the four Warner brothers in 1923.
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Her two shows, Fleabag and Killing Eve, were nominated for 20 Emmy Awards, with Fleabag winning six and Killing Eve one.
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As some big names in the quant world have struggled, the duo has quietly raked in almost $3 billion this year.
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He won 54% of the vote in a June rerun of the mayoral election, a stinging indictment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s economic policies and refusal to accept the outcome of the first vote.
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In February, Blumberg and Lieber sold their podcasting company to Spotify Technology SA for $230 million, the biggest deal yet in the industry.
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In May, the pop star-actress-influencer became the first woman to create an original fashion brand at LVMH SE and the first woman of color to run a label at the company, the first new house there in 32 years.
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His unrelenting efforts got Congress and the president to provide medical and financial aid for thousands of Sept. 11 first responders for the next seven decades.
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Two deals in southern and central Africa will give Equity Group, which has 14 million customers, access to 2 million more.
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AMD’s stock is up about 90% during a year when it unveiled processors that are faster and cheaper than Intel Corp.’s.
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More than 15.6 million Americans watched them win their second consecutive World Cup in July, which, along with the team’s 2015 win, are the two most-watched soccer games in the country’s history.
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After the release of Tell No One, their documentary revealing the extent of the pedophilia crisis in Poland’s Catholic Church, the country doubled prison terms for child sex offenders, to as many as 30 years.
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China’s largest hot pot chain opened 130 restaurants and saw its stock value almost double this year.
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In September the 16-year-old Swede led a climate change protest that involved 7.6 million people across 185 countries.
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Since the company’s May IPO, shares have risen about 200% to give the company a $4.5 billion valuation.
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After 13 years, Redstone got her wish in August when it was announced that CBS and Viacom planned to merge by the end of the year.
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Zoom’s stock price has almost doubled since an April IPO, making it one of the year’s best-performing newly listed tech companies in the U.S.
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Curaleaf is now the biggest U.S. marijuana company, with a market value of about $2.5 billion.
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She banned military-style semiautomatic and assault rifles six days after 51 people died in the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s modern history.
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A five-year Google Trends analysis shows that searches for “Modern Monetary Theory” more than quadrupled in early 2019 from previous highs, in part because of her evangelism.
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His Old Town Road spent 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, the longest a song has held that spot in the chart’s 61-year history.
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