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Markets

Coca-Cola Sees Glass Half Full Even as Trade War Drains Fizz From Pop Sales

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Coca-Cola was one of several companies whose earnings last week flashed positive signs, despite the hail of uncertainty around tariffs.

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Finance

Carl Icahn’s Big Bet Against Shopping Malls Hasn’t Exactly Worked Out

Wall Street legend Carl Icahn bet big and — so far — has lost big on a wager against US shopping malls by way of a risky derivative strategy.

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SBF’s Adventures in Wonderland

Experts weigh in on how the crypto king, Sam Bankman-Fried, got lost in the casino.

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Multibillion-Dollar Trial Not Going So Well for Sam Bankman-Fried

Star witness and Sam Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, says he directed the crimes.

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Finance

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Has Some Tips for SEC

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Top of the list is a warning over the rise of 24-hour trading, just as the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange pursue it.

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Life After Epstein at America’s Top Bank

JP Morgan, the largest bank in America, with more than $3 trillion in assets, settles all Epstein lawsuits.

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Finance

Goldman Sachs Launches Platform for Third-Party ETFs

Goldman Sachs launched its ETF accelerator platform, intended to help smaller third-party funds enter the $10 trillion market.

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Healthcare

Pharma Giants Combine Forces to Fight New M&A Rules

Some of pharma’s biggest players — including Merck, Amgen, Abbvie, and Gilead — formed an alliance to fight looming M&A reforms.

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Finance

Buffett’s $300B Cash Pile, Fed by Apple, Spurs Investment Guessing Game

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Buffett acolytes are primed to be receptive to new ideas after Berkshire’s more contrarian bets over the last decade have proven prescient.

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Wall Street’s Top Banks Fined $53 Million in Regulatory Spanking

Wall Street’s Top Banks Fined – CFTC ordered Goldman to pay $30 million, JP Morgan $15 million, and Bank of America $8 million.

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Markets

The Market Might Be Losing its Mojo

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 both sank to their lowest respective levels in three months. What has investors so anxious?

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Banking

Solaris Can’t Raise Funds Fast Enough

Solaris was once a rising star in the fintech world. Now its sweating to raise 100 million euros to fund a major client project.

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Finance

Why Stock Exchanges Want a Piece of Texas, ‘The Wall Street of the South’

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