Finance
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UBS has hired a top investment banker from Deutsche Bank amid a major ramp-up of its US dealmaking team (DB, UBS)
UBS has hired Carlos Alvarez, a long-tenured senior investment banker with Deutsche Bank, to join its financial institutions group as the US...
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Bank of America nailed the dollar’s comeback — and now recommends 6 ways to figure out what happens next
The US dollar is coming back to life. It hit a three-year low earlier this year, weighed by comments from Treasury Secretary...
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US GDP blows past estimates despite slowdown in consumer spending
The US economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate of gross domestic product...
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740Amazon spikes to an all-time high after crushing earnings (AMZN)
Markets Insider Amazon reported first-quarter earnings that crushed expectations on Thursday. The stock spiked to an all-time high, up more than 7%,...
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Facebook urged publishers to post videos in the newsfeed for years, but now it says video views are declining and it’s making the company ‘stronger’ (FB)
It wasn’t all that long ago that Facebook saw video as its next big thing — but those days may already be...
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The pound is about to do something it hasn’t done in 15 years
LONDON — April has been a cruel month for the British pound, with the currency set to decline against the dollar over...
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Pharmaceutical dealmaking is starting to heat up — here’s who is next
Takeda has reached a preliminary agreement to buy drugmaker Shire for $64 billion, a move that could help the Japanese drugmaker get...
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North and South Korea are inching closer to peace — and it could have as big an impact on markets as the fall of the Berlin Wall
With North Korea and South Korea making tentative step s towards a de-escalation of the decades long conflict between the two nations,...
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Here’s video of Kim Jong Un’s bodyguards running in formation next to his limo as it drives back into North Korea
The leaders of North and South Korea participated in celebratory exercises and diplomatic meetings on Friday, in the first official meeting of...
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Amazon just bagged $2 billion in ad sales — and insiders think it’s going to start giving Facebook and Google a run for their money (AMZN)
Amazon is quietly becoming a major player in the advertising business. In the first quarter, the e-commerce giant recorded more than $2...