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Canada’s Westons to Buy UK Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion

3 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 1 hour 45 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · Grouped automatically by the words the headlines share, until NewsMarkets groups it.

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Publications over time

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Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstBloombergCanada’s Westons to Buy UK Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion by Stuart Biggs
2+24 minutesFinancial TimesBillionaire Weston family to buy Boots in $8.9bn deal
3+1 hour 45 minutesThe GuardianCanada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn by Sarah Butler

Who covered it, by audience

3 of 3 publications on this story have an audience score.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (1)Mixed audience (2)Audience leans Republican (0)
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Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.