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Investors love China Merchants but the bank looks vulnerable as Beijing cracks down on aggressive tactics.

Wathiq Khuzaie / Stringer / Getty Images While peaking it $5,000 over the weekend, Bitcoin joined almost every other digital coin that experienced double-digit drops in value over the past 48 hours or so, before finally ...

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Reuters/Carlos Barria Headlines like this one from theFinancial Timesa few weeks ago tend to focus the attention… Itreads, “Trump set to launch first major trade action targeted at China.” This was the first shot i...

Industry behemoths may have deeper pockets, but SMBs still have a real opportunity to recruit top talent by focusing on these five key areas.

Jay Clayton, the recently appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, doesn't think the Wall Street regulator needs help from Congress to rewrite insider trading rules. The SEC does a "pretty good job" ...

Positive clinical trial results for its second drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy are lifting the stock. See why shares can move "significantly higher."

A small business owner has announced his Democratic candidacy for the Wisconsin congressional seat long held by Republican Jim Sensenbrenner. Tom Palzewicz (PAL'-zeh-wits), of Brookfield, says his campaign for the …

Who Is Kim Dotcom? If cartoon villains entered the real world, they'd probably look a lot like Kim Dotcom, the notorious Internet entrepreneur who founded Megaupload Ltd. Not only does he live in a remote part of the wor...

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BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Verizon is building out its advertising business with a new loyalty progra...

Tesla Tesla is expected to reveal a design for a semi-truck this month. CEO Elon Musk has been heralding this move into the freight business since last year, when he rolled out his "Master Plan, Part Deux." According to ...

Shutterstock StockTwits is a Twitter-like site for peopleinterested in talking about finance and stocks. Ian Rosen joined as CEO last year to help teach young readers how to invest. The site's audience is getting younger...

BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Payments Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Two-thirds of UK consumers have made a contactless payment since it was introdu...

Georgia Tech Whether large or small, every business has something in common — it all starts with an idea. Yet, no matter how spectacular that idea may be, it takes a smart team with a great plan to turn it into a succe...

REUTERS/Jonathan Crosby Stanley Fischer, the vice chairman ofthe Federal Reserve, plans tostep down by October 13. Fischer on Wednesday cited "personal reasons" for his decision in a letter to President Donald Trump. "It...

Department-store chain Kohl's said on Wednesday it would sell Amazon devices at 10 stores in Los Angeles and Chicago starting in October. Kohl's said it would provide 1,000 square feet of space in the stores that would b...

Jon Bond If you want an example of how to build a brand today, there’s no better place to look than Burning Man, the festival that takes place annually in the heart of the Nevada dessert. Anyone involved with Burning M...

U.S. stocks are edging higher in early trading, recouping some of the market's losses from a day earlier

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Apple is looking to make a big splash in scripted TV and movies, and it may enlist the help of a certain fictional secret agent to help it gain a foothold in Hollywood. Apple is looking to bid on the film rights for the ...