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To take Tesla private, Elon Musk may need more than funding. …read more […]

Russia backs using national currencies, not the U.S. dollar, in its trade with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, but he made no firm commitments that would immediately help Ankara to weather its currency crisis. Lavrov held talks in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu days after the Turkish lira plummeted to an all-time low versus the U.S. dollar, while the Russian rouble lost nearly 10 percent in just several days of August. “The use of national currencies for mutual trade has for several years been one of the tasks that the presidents of …read more […]

BOSTON (Reuters) – Billionaire investor David Einhorn, whose Greenlight Capital is posting some of the hedge fund industry’s worst returns, cut back several long-term holdings including Apple Inc , Voya Financial Inc and Consol Energy Inc , a filing made on Tuesday shows. …read more […]

A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed Tuesday in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 45 meters (nearly 150 feet) into a heap of rubble below. Italian officials said at least 20 people were killed and others injured. There was initial confusion over the exact death toll and officials were still searching for people in the rubble. …read more […]

Recent stock market meltdown is a temporary phenomenon as U.S. companies do not have significant exposure in Turkey. …read more […]

Life may get harder for big American tech firms trying to break into one of the world’s biggest online shopping and mobile markets. India is proposing new laws that would protect homegrown companies trying to compete with the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple in online shopping. India wants to level the playing field for domestic startups, store Indian user data in India, and change the rules around how foreign companies sell online in India. …read more […]

Some stocks are pretty reliable with their payout boosts. …read more […]

Which stock wins in a match-up between these two big pharma companies? …read more […]

Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled the Galaxy Note 9 in New York on Thursday, the latest iteration of a series of devices that ushered in the ‘phablet,’ which are between the size of a phone and tablet. Samsung is banking on a larger screen and more high-end specifications as it goes head-to-head with the iPhone X before Apple Inc. introduces new devices ahead of the holiday shopping season. With both starting at about $1,000, how do the Note and iPhone X compare? …read more […]

The Turkish lira pulled back on Tuesday from a record low of 7.24 a day earlier after the central bank pledged to provide liquidity in response to a meltdown which has unsettled global markets. The lira (TRYTOM=D3), which closed at 6.9 on Monday, has weakened 45 percent against the dollar this year, hit by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan’s calls for lower interest rates and worsening ties with the United States. The weakness of the Turkish currency has rippled through global markets, with its drop of as much as 18 percent on Friday hitting U.S. and European stocks …read more […]

Bitcoin fell below $6,000 on Tuesday, a decline that brings the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency to within 2 percent of its 2018 low. …read more […]

Berkshire Hathaway recently loosened its stock repurchase threshold. Could it be buying back shares already? …read more […]

A number of ongoing developments are fueling the programmatic advertiser’s soaring growth and making the company bullish for the future. …read more […]

At a gathering of graphics professionals on Monday, Nvidia rolled out its newest generation of chip technology, called Turing after the legendary British computer scientist Alan Turing. Nvidia says the new generation of chips will let designers make those changes in real time, which could speed up the creative process – and which Nvidia hopes customers will pay a premium for. “Turing is Nvidia’s most important innovation in computer graphics in more than a decade,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a statement. …read more […]

Recreational marijuana is now legal in Canada as well as a number of states in the U.S. Companies have raced to get in on the multibillion-dollar a year industry, so let’s see how two of the bigger pure-play pot stocks, Cronos Group (CRON) and Canopy Growth (CGC), are projected to perform Tuesday. …read more […]