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Speaker 1: Turkey hit by another large quake. I'm at Baxter with

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Speaker 1: Global News. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia,

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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Curtis and I'm Dak Krisner. Here are the

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Speaker 1: stories were following today. Very interesting to take a look

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Speaker 1: at BHP group. Here the world's biggest minor. It is

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Speaker 1: slashing its dividend. Let's get the story from Bloomberg's Richard Salama,

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Speaker 1: BHP will pay out ninety cents per share. That's down

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg day Break Asia. We go to China next, where

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong is taking a major step toward its goal

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong has outlined a plan to let retail investors

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia. Well. In the U S. A federal regulator

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Speaker 1: has asked Tesla for more information about one of its

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia. From Home Depot to Walmart, The biggest US

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