Finance
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969What it takes to launch a hedge fund right now, according to the Wall Street pros who know
Goldman Sachs: Dean Backer, global head of sales and capital introduction Pedestrian pass the offices of Goldman Sachs in London April 20,...
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938The 15 charts that defined the global economy in 2017
Stocks hit all-time highs (over and over and over) Markets Insider After hitting 20,000 points in January, the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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1.1KIndia is buying world’s emptiest airport in its battle for territorial dominance with China
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks wait to welcome Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Air Port in Mattala, Sri...
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951Bitcoin bears are being unleashed onto the cryptocurrency’s futures market
David Ryder/Getty Images Interactive Brokers is now letting its users go short on bitcoin in the newly launched futures market. It’ll give...
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887As bitcoin skyrockets, a top Facebook exec is joining the board of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange (FB)
David Marcus is joining the board of Coinbase.Brian Ach/Getty Images for Wired Facebook Messenger boss David Marcus is joining the board of...
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994A Hungarian startup thinks it has the key to cheaper self-driving cars — but a ride in its test car suggests it has a lot of work ahead (GOOGL, GM)
The view from inside AImotive’s test autonomous vehicle.Troy Wolverton/Business Insider AImotive is developing self-driving car technology that relies on inexpensive cameras, rather...
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1.1KA Hungarian startup is betting cameras will help it deliver self-driving cars more quickly and cheaply than Waymo (GOOGL, GM)
AImotive’s self-driving test car.Troy Wolverton/Business Insider AImotive, a Hungarian startup, is developing self-driving car technology that relies on cameras, instead of Lidar...
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1.1KBMW is turning an abandoned paint factory into a micro-apartment building in Shanghai
A rendering of the co-living apartment building by BMW Mini Living in Shanghai, China.BMW Group The car manufacturer BMW is constructing a...
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1.2K1930s Germany shows us that bad tax policy can magnify Washington’s worst problem by 1,000
Hitler at the Tag von Potsdam (Day of Potsdam) ceremony for the opening of the new Reichstag after the German federal election,...
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1.0KGOLDMAN SACHS: Bitcoin hasn’t taken a bite out of demand for gold
Reuters / Umit Bektas Gold demand is not being impacted by rising bitcoin prices, Goldman Sachs’ Jeffrey Currie argues. Some analysts have...