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Acreage Holdings, the cannabis company that touts ex-House Speaker John Boehner as a high-profile board member, didn't fire up on its first day of trading. In fact, the pot company's first day of trading in Canada, where...

Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies sell off: There are a couple of things different this time around.

Amazon will go bankrupt one day, Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the e-commerce colossus worth almost $1 trillion, told his employees in a stunning admission. “Amazon is not too big to fail,” Bezos said last week during an al...

Speculators are staging a forceful comeback in China's stock market, bidding up shares in loss-making companies as regulators ease rules around trading, fundraising and backdoor listings to prop up struggling bourses.

Moody's Investors Services analysts have confirmed what I have been suspecting for a few weeks. U.S. banks' Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) has been decreasing. The fact that common equity and retained earnings is decreasing...

Shoppers love Nordstrom -- as long as they get a deal. The upscale department store posted anemic sales growth of 0.4 percent at its full-price stores while sales at its discount chain, Nordstrom Rack, shot up 5.8 percen...

Nvidia posted sales that missed expectations for its third quarter, sending its stock--as well as rival AMD's--tumbling in late trading

Joel Waldfogel's new book concludes that the massive disruption the internet has wrought on the creative industries has created a pop culture renaissance.

Volkswagen expects to become the most profitable manufacturer of electric cars thanks to a multi-billion euro expansion plan to mass produce battery driven vehicles, Chief Executive Herbert Diess said on Friday.

Greece's powerful Orthodox Church says it wants priests to remain civil servants, rejecting part of a recent government offer to switch a payroll system for clergymen. The church's governing Holy …

A decade after a U.S. crackdown ended Swiss banking secrecy, rich Americans are flocking back to UBS as they look to diversify their investments in a volatile U.S. political landscape, a senior executive at the Swiss gro...

London's main stock index is logging another losing session Friday, driven by banks and drug companies, and continued political turmoil over Brexit plans. .

The S&P 500 edged lower on Friday as chip stocks tumbled after weak forecasts from Nvidia and Applied Materials, but a recovery in oil prices for a third day lifted energy stocks.

U.S. stock indexes are mostly lower in early trading, erasing some of the market's gains from a day earlier

New research from Climate Central and Zillow shows the area could see significant coastal flooding by 2020. By 2050, extreme projections of sea level rise have low-lying buildings under water.

BlackBerry raised its bets on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity on Friday with the $1.4 billion purchase of California-based machine learning specialists Cylance. The Canadian technology company, which dominated ...

The number of people who don't have electricity in their home has fallen below one billion for the first time ever. The post Chart of the week: a milestone in the developing world was first published on MoneyWeek.

Loon, spun out of the search giant's X innovation lab in July, is teaming up with Telkom Kenya Ltd. to build a network of high-flying balloons to connect people in the east African country starting next year

The Third Annual Shorty Social Good Awards--which highlight the best marketing campaigns in support of causes--were handed out Thursday night at Current in New York. The event was hosted by Dulc? Sloan, the newest full-t...

The Jabong layoffs are expected to be announced at a town hall today morning

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), not one to take conservative criticism lying down, fired back at Washington Examiner reporter Eddie Scarry's...

Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s stock produces a bearish "death cross" chart pattern for the first time in over two years, that may put the future of the 7-year old bull market in doubt.