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Investment into the ETF would have increased Bitcoin's spot demand and price. At the time of writing, Bitcoin ( BTC ) is trading down marginally at its curren...

Warren Proposes 'Ultra-Millionaire Tax' As Part Of Presidential Campaign

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Ghosn said ready to resign from Renault with new leaders eyed

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Corbyn accused of 'facilitating a job-destroying Brexit'

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Dow falls - U.S., China still far away on trade deal

Texas Instruments Inc was up 4.82 percent after what analysts said were better-than-feared results, although the company warned of weak demand in China . Th...

Hong Kong ranks worst in housing affordability survey

Melbourne (9.7), San Jose (9.4), Los Angeles (9.2) and Auckland (9.0) were also among the least affordable. A median house there costs a dizzying 20.9 times med...

Soros claims Orwellian China poses global threat

The world's two largest economies, China and the USA, are locked in a "cold war that could soon turn into a hot one", warned Democratic billionaire investor and...

Aphria urges shareholders to wait as Green Growth officially launches offer

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John Kerry Said President Trump Should Resign

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Apple Pay expands its reach to Target, Taco Bell, other top retailers

Otherwise, the third-party mobile payment platforms are more than capable of securely storing credit and debit cards issued by hundreds of United States banks t...

Shrinkflation: Bread and breakfast cereals most affected

The figures also pointed to record employment of 32.5 million - rising by 141,000. Mike Hardie, head of inflation at the ONS, says: " Over the last few years,...

Toyota, Panasonic to jointly produce electric vehicle batteries

Their envisioned joint venture is likely to be set up in a year or so with each participating company buying a stake of up to around 10 percent, the sources s...

Saudi Arabia to build refinery, petrochemical plants in South Africa

The memo aims to strengthen joint cooperation between the Kingdom and South Africa in the fields of exploration, production, refining, storage, marketing, trans...

Brexit backer Sir James Dyson makes 'global' switch to Singapore

This means the company will become a Singapore-based business and primarily be regulated by the law here. Dyson chief executive, Jim Rowan, insisted the rel...

Alberta government to partially backstop new $2 billion dollar bitumen upgrader

Synthetic crude can flow easier through pipelines. It is hoped that it will also provide access to more refineries that are now unable to accept bitumen from ...

Reports of drone disrupt flights at USA airport

Murphy, at the AirTrain Station in Newark Tuesday afternoon, against the backdrop of Newark Airport and the new $2.7 billion Terminal One, said the current rail...

Deal agreed for four House of Fraser stores to stay open

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EasyJet takes £15m hit from Gatwick drone chaos

The British company, the largest operator at Britain's second biggest airport, said the disruption affected 82,000 customers and forced the cancellation of more...

Volvo recalls 200,000 cars worldwide to fix fuel line

The recall is connected to 11 models totaling 219,420 vehicles globally, including 30,777 in Britain and 37,000 in Sweden. Group spokeswoman Annika Bjerstaf...

New flights coming to London Airport

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'No cancellation' of trade talks with China: Kudlow

Instead, he stressed that the high-level meeting later this month was "very, very important" and "determinative". "There were no other intermediate meetings s...

U.S. plans formal request to extradite Huawei CFO

The United States will proceed with the formal extradition from Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou , Canada's ambassador to the United States told th...

European Commission: No-deal Brexit 'means hard border

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India to be global growth leader in 2019-20

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President Museveni To Attend World Economic Forum 2019

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No-deal Brexit 'WILL mean hard border on island of Ireland'

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