Bao Fan, founder and chief executive officer of China Renaissance, speaks at a conference in California in 2016. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Prominent Chinese investment banker Bao Fan is missing, his company China Renaissance Holdings said late Thursday. China Renaissance said it “has been unable to contact Mr. Bao Fan,” according
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In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford workers produce the electric F-150 Lightning pickup on Dec. 13, 2022 at the automaker’s Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REVC). Michael Wayland | CNBC DETROIT – A defective battery that caused a Ford F-150 Lightning in the company’s possession to catch fire earlier this
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In this article CMCSA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Still from Universal and Dreamworks’ “How to Train Your Dragon 2.” Universal | Dreamworks Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation are taking a page out of Disney’s playbook. For the last decade, the Walt Disney Company has been transforming its classic animated features into live-action theatrical
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As political pressure grows over declining air quality in the world’s big cities, London has become a test bed for policy among global capitals. The FT’s Daniel Garrahan reports asks whether the transition to electric vehicles is being made quickly enough. ► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2GakujT ► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube:
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Japan has a unique fascination with androids and the quest to make robots more like humans. One of the country’s most original thinkers in this area is Professor Takashi Ikegami of the University of Tokyo. He has created androids filled with sensors and artificial intelligence software. The technology allows them to perceive the outside world
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Barclays Bank building Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Barclays on Wednesday reported a full-year net profit of £5.023 billion ($6.07 billion) for 2022, beating consensus expectations of £4.95 billion but suffering a 19% fall from the previous year’s restated £6.2 billion in part due to a costly trading blunder in the
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President and CEO at Hallmark Media Wonya Lucas speaks onstage during Hallmark Media’s star-studded kickoff of ‘Countdown To Christmas’ with a special screening of “A Holiday Spectacular” featuring the world famous Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall on October 20, 2022 in New York City. Mike Coppola | Getty Images Wonya Lucas landed a job
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Olezzo | iStock | Getty Images There’s no question 2022 was a rough year for investors. With record-high inflation, economic uncertainty and aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve to combat rising prices, stocks took a beating. All three of the major indexes had their worst year since 2008: The S&P 500 Index dropped
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Antony Ressler, co-founder of Ares Management, takes photos with students of the AltFinance Fellowship. Marcus Shaw, AltFinance The search for bigger profits and top talent is nothing new on Wall Street, but some firms are turning to an almost untapped resource: historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. The AltFinance Fellowship is the brainchild of
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Hoxton/Sam Edwards | Getty Images After kicking off tax season with customer service and technology upgrades, the IRS this week unveiled a new option allowing taxpayers to respond more easily to certain agency notices.  The new feature lets taxpayers and professionals respond to nine notices online by digitally uploading requested documents, rather than responding by
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Read more at https://on.ft.com/2OW5gGC By 2050 the global demand for food will rise by 60 per cent. Wageningen University & Research is looking into new agricultural solutions, including vertical farming and robots to help with farm labour, as well as ways of protecting staple crops. Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2GakujT Subscribe to the Financial Times
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Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — What happens to a bag left unclaimed at an airport? Eventually, if never reunited with its owner, it ends up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. It’s the only store in America that buys and resells unclaimed baggage from the airline industry, according to Brenda Cantrell, the center’s brand
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National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited readers to submit a digital photograph in one of four categories: nature, people, places and animals. The contest required that photographs be largely unaltered. According to the rules, “only
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In this article AN TXRH RDFN CHRW AMAT ROKU DE DASH DKNG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: DraftKings — DraftKings shares surged more than 8% after the sports betting company posted fourth-quarter results that beat expectations. The company
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In this article HAS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Hasbro Monopoly board game arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Feb. 6, 2022. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hasbro‘s 2023 outlook might feel like déjà vu. At first, anyway. The toymaker on Thursday announced its fourth-quarter results while issuing conservative guidance for
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