Politics

Don’t blame the stock market’s decline Wednesday on the surprisingly close mid-term election results. I know it’s tempting to do so. Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party is more business-friendly…
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Wall Street piled more gains Friday onto its mammoth rally from a day earlier to close out its best week since the summer. The S&P 500 rose 0.9% a day after soaring 5.5% for its best day in more than two years. The Dow Jones…
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 13, 2021. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)by Xin PingBEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- On Nov. 16, Republicans…
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LOS ANGELES: Bob Iger is returning to Walt Disney Co as chief executive less than a year after he retired, a surprise comeback that coincides with the entertainment company’s attempt to boost investor confidence and profits at its…
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is set to announce a range of reforms which will lift regulations on the financial sector aimed at increasing the City of London’s competitiveness. The Chancellor’s proposals — published online…
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A 2024 Trump Presidency could help juice battered stock markets, according to ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, but warned about his former boss’s tendency to rock political stability.  Former U.S. President…
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The move to beef up the central bank’s powers and introduce more oversight comes after the ASX last month dumped a long-running technology upgrade of its trading system, following repeated delays.LoadingFor years, ASX had been working on…
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(Bloomberg) -- Latin America’s bonds are poised for a comeback in 2023, with investors planning the perfect moment to pounce on bargains before a Federal Reserve pivot and China’s reopening send them soaring.Most Read from…
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Jan 15th 2022THE RELATIONSHIP between governments and businesses is always changing. After 1945, many countries sought to rebuild society using firms that were state-owned and -managed. By the 1980s, faced with sclerosis in the West, the…
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As co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, Youngkin made big bets that wresting control of this company or that one would yield fat dividends for himself, his partners and, after the private-equity giant went public, its shareholders. It worked…
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