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McDonald’s Chief Blasts Minimum Wage Loophole for Tipped Workers

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McDonald’s is battling its own industry over fast food workers’ pay, which it believes should be better, and tips, which it opposes.

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Alibaba Executes a Big Tech Pivot

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, having successfully diversified into cloud computing, is now making a push into artificial intelligence.

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New Spot Crypto Products? Regulators Say Bring It On

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The SEC and CFTC recently issued a rare joint statement encouraging applications for new spot crypto products.

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Media Companies Are Cracking the Streaming Code. Should Investors Care?

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Disney is the comeback kid of Wall Street, and other streaming giants are following suit.

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LionShare’s ETF Won’t Take Dividends Lion Down

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The company’s new U.S. Equity Total Return ETF invests in other exchange-traded funds in a way that minimizes dividend payments.

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‘Not Optimistic’: Washington Hits Tariff Impasse with Switzerland

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Small, mountainous Switzerland — a country that ranks 61st in the world by total area — is one of the world’s biggest investors in the US.

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3 Reasons to Keep Politics Out of Portfolios

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Mixing politics and investing is like mixing emotions and math: It rarely adds up.

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Tesla Needs its Robo-Tech to Recharge Revenue

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So far, Tesla has launched limited rideshare services in Austin and the Bay area, and it’s looking to expand into Florida, Arizona and Nevada.

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Lowe’s Lays Foundation for Housing Rebound

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In an interview with Barron’s, Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said a rebound is inevitable in America’s something’s-gotta-give housing market

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Carlyle, Goldman Spot Dollar Signs in Private Equity’s Liquidity Logjam

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Last year marked the first time since Bain & Co started tracking data in 2005 that the private equity industry shrunk.

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Developers Need More Than Speed to Succeed

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‘It’s never just about your lines of code produced,’ said Capital One’s Catherine McGarvey.

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Alison Considine on AI, Breakaway Advisors, and the Future of Tech-Driven Wealth Management at Betterment

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Sovereign Debt Concerns Linger as Global Bond Rout Loses Steam

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In the last decade, global government bonds with maturities over 10 years suffered a median loss of 2% in September, according Bloomberg.

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Macy’s Makeover Smoothes Out Earnings-Related Worry Lines for Investors

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The department store also seems cautiously optimistic for the holidays, raising its profit forecast for the year.

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Apple Hits the Jackpot as Google Ducks Antitrust KO

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For a year now, Apple shareholders have feared the company would lose out on easy revenue from making Google its default search engine.

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SEC Enforcement Claims Tumble Almost 50% This Year

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Chairman Paul Atkins said his agency is going after fraud affecting retail investors.

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Music Festivals, UFC Fights. How Advisors Are Appealing to Next-Gen Clients

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They’re going to have to adapt to not only younger clients’ approach to finances, but also their communication styles and social preferences.

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Index Investors May Be Losing Millions of Dollars Each Year. Here’s Why

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Rules-based investments are appealing, but even index-fund investing comes with limitations.

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Lung Disease Breakthrough Boosts United Therapeutics — and its Rivals

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About 5 million people are affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis globally, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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Winklevoss Twins Seek $2.2 Billion Valuation for Gemini IPO

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The pair invested early in bitcoin, becoming some of the world’s first bitcoin billionaires and launching Gemini in 2014.

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Can ‘Terror Management Theory’ Explain Inheritance Spending?

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Meet the BlackRock ETF Taking Aim at Invesco’s QQQ

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Neurocrine Scoops Up Hunger-Drug Maker in Latest Multi-Billion-Dollar Pharma Deal

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