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Diane Brady

BYD passes Tesla on Fortune’s Global 500 as once-dominant U.S. companies give way to foreign rivals

Photo: Electric cars made by BYD, Hong Kong, China. (Credit: Bob Henry—UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Good morning. Fortune published its Global 500 list this morning, our annual ranking of the world’s largest companies. Combined, they generated $41.7 trillion in revenue last year, with $2.98 trillion in profit—the second-most-profitable year since the Global 500 launched in 1990. (Fortune’s international ranking debuted in 1976 but originally excluded U.S. companies.)

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