Best of Lex: your weekly round-up
Coronavirus — gold, luxury and cruise ships, Unilever, Vodafone, Royal Philips, 3M and Goldman Sachs
Private equity firm KKR reports slide in distributable earnings
Results underscore volatility of performance fees
Woodford Income Focus fund to reopen in February
£268m fund was frozen in October after stockpicker’s business imploded
ExxonMobil reports worst core profit in 3 years
Oil major’s results knocked by slim refining margins and loss in chemicals unit
Marcus steps back from UK stocks and shares Isa
Retail banking arm of Goldman Sachs puts plans for investment product on ice
Fed pivots on green banking; tackling climate’s passive problem
Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore
First UK cases of coronavirus as pair treated in Newcastle hospital
Government says NHS can contain virus after 2 members of same family are taken to specialist unit
Talks over global digital tax are back on track, says OECD
Tariffs dispute between US and France is ‘pushing countries to compromise’
IBM turns to technologist chief for cloud computing battle
Arvind Krishna has already pushed group to catch up with cloud computing leaders
Apple revamps Maps app, Nintendo Switch outsells SNES video
In today’s top stories, Apple says its new maps are more accurate than before. Meanwhile, Nintendo’s latest console hits another milestone.