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Go East. Tesla will announce the location of its China manufacturing plant by the third quarter, CEO Elon Musk said this week, after the Chinese government's gave the green light last month for foreign new-energy vehicle makers to fully own auto factories by year-end. Tesla's next factories will...

King Midas and his touch The story of King Midas is a myth about the tragedy of avarice and narrates what happens when true happiness is not recognized. Midas was a man who wished that everything he touched would turn into gold. However, he had not thought that this wish was not actually a...

Daily chartAmerica’s Treasury ramps up borrowing to finance the Republican tax cuts Increased debt issuance and lower demand from the Fed are pushing up borrowing costs Graphic detail May 4th 2018 IT IS a central principle of Keynesian economics that governments should stimulate demand during...

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway goes even bigger on Apple Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway upped its stake in Apple in the first quarter of 2018, adding 75 million shares of the consumer tech giant's stock. The additional shares add to the more than 165 million Apple shares Berkshire...

Sanctioned Ponzi scheme salesmen keep shilling planning, advice Recent sanctions by state securities regulators against unlicensed brokers who sold pieces of an alleged billion-dollar real estate Ponzi scheme highlight a perennial problem the financial advice industry continues to ignore...

SEC bars former assistant over alleged misappropriation of funds The Securities and Exchange Commission has barred former advisory firm assistant Lauramarie Colangelo from working at any type of firm the agency regulates after a federal court ruled in its favor in a case against her employer...

VW Charge Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn has been charged with fraud in the U.S. over his role in the automaker's rigging of software to make diesel emissions seem cleaner. Specifically, he was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud VW's U.S. customers and violate the...

Twitter Passwords Twitter has advised all its 336 million users to change their passwords, after it admitted accidentally storing them in plain text before putting them through the usual encryption process that companies use to protect their users' passwords. Twitter says there's no evidence of...

Walmart and Flipkart Reports suggest that Flipkart's board has approved a takeover by Walmart and partners including Alphabet, rather than by Amazon. The deal would reportedly value Flipkart at $20 billion and give Walmart the largest e-commerce player in India, a market of 1.3 billion people...

Picasso Nude in Rockefeller Auction May Help Break a Record By Katya Kazakina May 3, 2018, 2:00 AM PDT Updated on May 3, 2018, 11:26 AM PDT Christie’s, Sotheby’s offering 45 works during May auctions ‘Young Girl with a Flower Basket’ could fetch $100 million BID SOTHEBY'S 52.47 USD...