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2020 in review: Oil price crash, digital tax and Covid-19 shopping

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As 2020 draws to a close, we look back on some of the big and overlooked business stories of the year. What happened to the oil supply glut that sent prices plunging below zero in April? Will a new global deal on how to tax digital firms ever be agreed on? Plus: a look at some of the items shoppers did and didn't buy over the year. FRANCE 24's Business Editors Stephen Carroll and Kate Moody present this round-up of some of 2020's biggest business headlines.

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