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    Error Briefly Makes Chinese Education Firm World's Most Valuable Company

    For less than 10 minutes on Thursday, a company that operates eight private schools could claim a market capitalization of $5.14 trillion.
    by Bill Chappell Aug 11, 2017 1 minute
    Students at Hailiang Foreign Language School in Zhuji watch robots performing in a class in March. The operator of the school, Hailiang, saw its stock price reach unprecedented — and erroneous — heights Thursday.

    For about eight minutes on Thursday, Hailiang Education Group outshone Apple, Alphabet and other titans, with a market capitalization that streaked past $5 trillion. But then a market error

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