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Tech Firms Ask for Trump Tariff Protection

Four US companies warn a new round of taxes on Chinese imports could lead to job losses.

Four US companies warn a new round of taxes on Chinese imports could lead to job losses. Ben Parr is co-founder of technology firm Octane AI, and tells us why Dell, Cisco, Juniper Networks and Hewlett Packard are worried. Nigeria is one of Africa's biggest economies - and yet a large number of Nigerians still don't have access to a bank account. One bank that's trying to change that is Lagos based Diamond Bank, as CEO Uzoma Dozie explains. Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent for The Economist, and Eshe Nelson, economics and markets reporter for Quartz.

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Fri 7 Sep 2018 22:32GMT

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