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    (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden will try to bolster his case for his massive spending proposals on Thursday, arguing his…

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    (Bloomberg) — House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters rebuked Wall Street CEOs for charging overdraft penalties during the pandemic…

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    (Bloomberg) — Google is pushing further into e-commerce with new tools and partnerships with Shopify Inc., Square Inc. and others…

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    (Bloomberg) — Relativity Space Inc., a maker of 3D-printed rockets, is in talks to raise $600 million in a funding…

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    (Bloomberg) — The rejection of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s management team marks one of the most significant victories for shareholders who…

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    (Bloomberg Businessweek) — College endowments illustrate just how deep-rooted inequality is in higher education. U.S. college endowments held about $630…

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    (Bloomberg Businessweek) — Big business broke with President Donald Trump over tariffs and immigration and resented his Twitter attacks on…

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    (Bloomberg Businessweek) — In the weirdest year of our lives, the rise of Cathie Wood is hardly the weirdest thing…

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    (Bloomberg) — Vernon Morris had often felt invisible in a profession defined by observation. As a climate scientist, he’s encountered racist…

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    (Bloomberg) — Later this year, the iconic Amagansett seafood shack Lobster Roll will open the first new location in its 55-year history. The outpost will…

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    (Bloomberg) — Taiwan’s ruling party said it plans to double a proposed increase in stimulus funding as the economy reels…

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    (Bloomberg) — Bayer AG’s proposal to pay as much as $2 billion to resolve future claims that its Roundup weed…

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    (Bloomberg) — With lots of talk about supply shortages right now, there are plenty of concerns that companies will raise…

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    (Bloomberg) — Melbourne, the Australian city that’s already endured one of the world’s longest and most stringent lockdowns, is ordering…

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    (Bloomberg) — SoftBank Group Corp. once again demonstrated its willingness to pay the highest compensation in Japan, with eight top…

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    (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden said he ordered the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble” its effort to determine the origin…

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    (Bloomberg) — It’s been an eventful and largely miserable year for Europe’s biggest soccer clubs and their billionaire owners. The…

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    (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Justice Department has told former casino magnate Steve Wynn to register as a foreign lobbyist for…

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    (Bloomberg) — Snowflake Inc., a software company that debuted with 2020’s biggest U.S. public offering, said product sales will grow…

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    (Bloomberg) — Senator Elizabeth Warren called JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon “the star of the overdraft show.” Her Democratic…

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    …to get something that you can get a handle on, you have to spin up a consumption basket. The idea…

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    Of course, there’s never much agreement when it comes to the term premium, from what it might mean for the rest…

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    (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been a hard-charging shareholder activist for decades. At 83 years of age, he…

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    “We’ve got to reform the program for the fairness of everyone,” said Kathy Fairbanks, a spokeswoman for Affordable Clean Energy…

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    (Bloomberg) — The European Central Bank is stepping up scrutiny of global investment banks’ risk management within the region to…

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    (Bloomberg) — Allies of Donald Trump have built an ecosystem of think tanks, fund-raising outfits and professional development organizations designed…

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    (Bloomberg) — Mark Carney to Brookfield Asset Management. Brexit architect Nigel Farage to DGB Group. A senior Obama aide to…

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    (Bloomberg Markets) — Central bankers around the world are mulling the future of their massive bond-buying programs in a post-pandemic…

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    (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.’s messaging platform WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit challenging Indian rules that would require the company to…

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    (Bloomberg) — Excessive use of the world’s most potent antibiotics has stoked drug-resistant infections in India for years. Now the…

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    (Bloomberg) — Hong Kong may donate Covid-19 vaccines to countries more in need of them as local demand for Pfizer…

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    (Bloomberg) — Western Community Energy, a local government agency that sells electricity to six small towns in Southern California, filed…

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    (Bloomberg) — A U.K. government plan to boost support for people who need to self-isolate in the pandemic does not…

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    (Bloomberg) — A machine-guided fund that roared ahead of the market at the start of the year is being derailed…

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    (Bloomberg) — Excessive use of the world’s most potent antibiotics has stoked drug-resistant infections in India for years. Now the…

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    States and cities in the U.S. are cracking down on a niche in house-flipping known as wholesaling conducted by a…

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    (Bloomberg) — Google’s market power and control over users’ data faces intense scrutiny in Germany as the nation’s antitrust watchdog…

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    (Bloomberg) — The year 2021 is shaping up to set records for diversity proposals at U.S. company annual meetings. Nine out…

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    (Bloomberg) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ousted another central bank official, the latest of his sudden decisions this…

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    (Bloomberg) — The most serious clashes in decades between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel erupted in several cities in…

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    (Bloomberg) — The U.S. said Americans should avoid traveling to Japan, with the country under a state of emergency that…

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    (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden plans to announce on Monday a doubling of federal spending on preparations for severe weather…

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    (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve is stepping up its research on digital currencies, Governor Lael Brainard said, amid growing demand…

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    (Bloomberg) — Belarus has long pursued its president’s critics on the streets, and now it’s turned to the skies. For…

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    (Bloomberg) — Wall Street banks spent the pandemic making record profits. Now Democratic lawmakers want them to explain why they…

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    (Bloomberg) — Pakistan is closing in on a deal with bilateral creditors that would tie debt relief to the achievement…

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    The basic idea is that changes in the level of investment impact the level of present consumption at the same…

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    (Bloomberg) — Banking technology provider Zeta raised $250 million from SoftBank Vision Fund II at a valuation of $1.45 billion,…

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    (Bloomberg) — The World Bank may provide as much as $3 billion to the Democratic Republic of Congo as the…

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    (Bloomberg) — Flights are being re-directed to avoid Belarusian airspace after the government in Minsk forced a Ryanair Holdings Plc…

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