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Wall Street Billionaire’s Socialite Wife in Explosive Suit Name-dropping Alicia Keys (Fox Business) Billionaire hedge fund boss Philip Falcone and his wife Lisa Falcone were hit with a federal lawsuit by a private chef who claimed they neglected to pay him in full and subjected the Filipino cook...

Billionaires' Wealth Geopolitical turmoil and volatile equity markets led the world's richest people to become a little less rich last year, for the first time in a decade. A UBS/PwC report found that the world's 2,150-ish billionaires' wealth fell by $388 billion, leaving them with $8.539...

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Ellen Milligan and Jonathan Browning , Bloomberg•November 8, 2019 Ex-Billionaire Dragged to Court for $680 Million Unpaid Loan (Bloomberg) -- Three Chinese banks are suing the brother of Asia’s richest man in a London court for failing to pay back $680 million in defaulted loans. The...

James Simons (Illustration by Richard A. Chance) CULTURE Bitter Lawsuits. Epic Meltdowns. Vicious Arguments. Jim Simons’ Renaissance Made Him Billions – But It Came at a Price. Two harrowing episodes in the firm's journey to hedge fund dominance. By Gregory Zuckerman November 06, 2019 Most...

Harley-Davidson’s teenage (and 20-something) dream has come true Harley-Davidson is finally reaching the younger audiences that all legacy brands strive for. The secret? It got lucky: Katy Perry recorded a hit song with its name in the title. Her song “Harleys in Hawaii” is rising up the...

Savers' Rewards A new online bank called HMBradley will reward its customers for good saving behavior, giving them an interest rate of 3% if they save a fifth of their income each month. CEO Zach Bruhnke: "Every challenger bank is the same and offer similar hooks like 'get paid early' or...

Airbnb IPO Investors are scrambling to buy indirect stakes (via special purpose vehicles) in Airbnb ahead of its planned IPO next year, and are valuing the home-rental platform at up to $42 billion. Airbnb's valuation at its last fundraising round, in 2017, was $31 billion. Financial Times

Twitter Spies Two former Twitter employees used their platform access to spy on Saudi dissidents on behalf of that country's regime, according to a criminal complaint. The Justice Department alleges that "Saudi agents mined Twitter's internal systems for personal information about known Saudi...

Uber Death More news on the tragic death last year of Arizona pedestrian Elaine Herzberg, who was struck by an Uber self-driving car. Turns out that, per documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board, the car was not programmed to recognize jaywalkers. Incredibly, it also...

“When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.” - Sarah Jessica Parker

Security Contractor Erik Prince Is in Talks to Acquire Ukraine’s Motor Sich Trump administration has approached Prince and at least one other potential buyer from the private sector Erik Prince on Capitol Hill in 2017. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press By Brett Forrest Nov. 5, 2019...

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Companies document consumer scores. Here’s how to check a few of yours. Information about consumer scores has been quietly trickling into the public sphere for some time.The New York Times began peeling back the onion in 2012, and a secret scoring system called CLV (customer lifetime value) came...

Hedge Funds Buy Oil in Anticipation of Short-covering Rally: Kemp (Reuters) LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds have started to become more optimistic about the outlook for oil prices amid hopes that the United States and China will reach a trade truce and the global economy will avert recession in...

The Boeing Burn The fall-out from the Boeing scandal drags on, and other than Boeing itself, the hardest hit by the grounding of the 737 MAX has frequently been budget carriers—like Ireland's RyanAir. The airline still had outstanding orders for 30 of the planes this summer; now that number...

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri targeted in fake 911 call for man with gun in NYC apartment https://nypost.com/2019/11/04/instagram-ceo-adam-mosseri-targeted-in-bogus-911-call-about-nyc-hostage-crisis/