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SoftBank's Saudi ties unnerve investors as journalist crisis deepens

SoftBank Group Corp saw its shares drop on Monday as fallout from the disappearance of a Saudi journalist spread to the Japanese conglomerate, whose nearly $100 billion Vision Fund is almost half financed by Saudi Arabia. As Laura Frykberg reports, the oil-rich kingdom has found itself threatened with "severe punishment" by U.S. President Donald Trump over the disappearance this month of Jamal Khashoggi.