1 hour ago | Fortune

For years, buying exchange-traded funds focused on, say, the technology sector has offered a simple buy-and-hold investment strategy for individual investors who wanted...
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VCs await regulatory clarity on Opportunity Zones, the latest tactic to draw capital to the Heartland

4 hours ago | Venture Beat

It's an oft-cited statistic that 75 percent of venture capital money in the U.S. goes to just three states: New York, California, and Massachusetts - and has for years. If it's...
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Gemini dollars: The most promising thing to happen to crypto in months

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GUEST: Earlier this week, the Winklevoss twins announced a new currency built on the Ethereum blockchain that can be used for low cost cross-border transactions, all backed by...
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Baloney Meter: Do Liberal policies mean a typical family is $2,000 richer?

10 hours ago | National Post

OTTAWA - “Our plan - to invest in people, to strengthen and grow the middle class, and to build an economy that works for everyone - is working. By this time next year, a...
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Mark your calendars: These are New York's top real estate events next week

1 day ago | The Real Deal New York

There will be a few new real estate events in New York City next week. On Sept. 25, Gensler is hosting a panel, Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets: A Lender's Perspective...
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Shares in Luxury Marketplace Farfetch Soar 50% After IPO, Minting a New Billionaire

1 day ago | Fortune

Shares of luxury fashion marketplace Farfetch jumped as much as 50% in trading Friday following an initial public offering, making a billionaire out of its Portugese founder...
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Howard Michaels, pugnacious real estate finance broker, dies

1 day ago | The Real Deal New York

Howard Michaels, a tough-talking capital-markets broker who arranged financing for some of New York's biggest projects, died Friday. He was 62. The cause of death was cancer...
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Russian sub fleet capable of firing missiles armed with nukes, hypersonics will be ready by 2024

1 day ago | CNBC | 2 articles

In order to finance eight of the submarines, Moscow cut funding for other military modernization programs like the nation's surface vessel fleet, according a source who spoke...
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KKR-backed Calsonic lines up 5 billion euro financing for Magneti takeover: sources

1 day ago | Reuters

Calsonic Kansei has lined up around 5 billion euros in financing from Japanese banks to fund its proposed acquisition of Fiat Chrysler's unit Magneti Marelli, four sources...
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Thoughts and prayers: The NRA is bleeding money

1 day ago | Think Progress

The National Rifle Association has lost tens of millions of dollars in membership dues since the 2016 election and is more than $30 million in debt, according to an audit...
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Prison guards find $17.8 million worth of cocaine in shipment of donated bananas

It was a fruitful morning for a pair of prison guards who uncovered some monkey business when they spotted $17.8 million of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of bananas. Read more ...

3 children and 3 adults wounded in early-morning knife attack at New York...

Six people, including three children, are in New York hospitals with knife wounds, after an incident at a daycare in Queens at 3:40 a.m. on Friday morning. Police told NBC that... Read more ...

China reportedly cancels trade talks with US as tariff threats escalate

SHANGHAI - China has canceled upcoming trade talks with the United States and will not send vice-premier Liu He to Washington next week, the Wall Street Journal reported... Read more ...

PayPal bans Alex Jones' Infowars for hate speech

Payments processor PayPal said on Friday it decided to end its business relationship with popular conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars Web site after finding instances of... Read more ...

Trump's media allies are pushing him to fire Rod Rosenstein 'immediately'...

President Donald Trump's allies in conservative media asked him to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "immediately" on Friday after a New York Times bombshell. The... Read more ...

Trump walks back his decision to declassify sensitive Russia docs after the...

President Trump said Friday that he was reconsidering his order to declassify and release sensitive documents related to the ongoing Russia investigation and the FBI's... Read more ...

People are complaining that Apple Store sales systems went down on new...

Apple's newest phones, the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, went on sale on Friday. One way to make sure you get the latest iPhone or Apple Watch on launch day is to reserve the... Read more ...

PayPal is cutting off Alex Jones and says it will no longer do business with...

PayPal just announced that it will stop providing any services to InfoWars, the website created by Alex Jones that promotes conspiracy theories. The payment processing company... Read more ...

Our 7 best bets for Week 4 of the college football season

Another weekend, another full slate of college football action. After a rough start to the year, we're now riding two straight winning weeks of picks thanks to TCU playing to a... Read more ...

Trump's former lawyer reportedly wanted to cover Manafort's and Gates' legal...

John Dowd, President Donald Trump's former lead defense attorney, reportedly tried to help pay the legal fees for Paul Manafort and Rick Gates earlier this year. At one point... Read more ...

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