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| Sberbank and Alibaba abandon joint venture talks |
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Efforts to form ecommerce tie-up shelved after year of discussions
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| Hotly anticipated bitcoin futures surge 21 percent on debut |
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Bitcoin futures jumped more than 20 percent in their eagerly anticipated U.S. debut, which backers hope will encourage wider use and legitimacy for the world’s largest cryptocurrency even as critics warn of the risk of a bubble and price collapse
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| Chevron plans sharp rise in US shale investment |
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Move comes despite oil group cutting overall spending for fifth successive year
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| Brussels calls for creation of European Monetary Fund |
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European Commission seeks to overhaul institutions and functions of the Eurozone
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| Senate Passes Tax-Cut Bill in Milestone Move Toward Overhaul |
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Senate Republicans narrowly approved the most sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code in three decades, slashing the corporate tax rate and providing temporary tax-rate cuts for most Americans
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| China's Xi says country will not close door to global internet |
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in its vision of internet development
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| Yellen warns on outlook for surging US public debt |
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Outgoing Fed chair voices concern as Senate debates tax cuts that could boost deficit
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| Samsung hails ‘graphene ball’ battery success |
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Charging time slashed to 12 mins, while capacity is boosted by 45%
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| Bank's $4 Billion Fraud Allegations Return to London Courtroom |
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Nine years after $4 billion in alleged embezzlement by the chairman of Kazakhstan’s biggest bank nearly caused its collapse, the legal fight over the missing assets is back in court in London
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| Buyers circle suddenly attractive U.S. media companies |
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All of a sudden, it seems, everybody wants to own a U.S. media company
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| Norway wealth fund proposes ditching oil and gas stocks |
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GPFG says the country already has enough exposure to global energy prices
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| China finance official says country's financial sector faces bubble risk |
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China’s financial sector faces bubble risks, which are reflected in the country’s high broad money supply, Huang Qifan, deputy chairman of the economic and finance committee under the National People’s Congress, said at a conference on Thursday
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| Bitcoin Plunges 29% From Record High |
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Bitcoin plunged as the cancellation of a technology upgrade prompted some users to switch out of the cryptocurrency, spooking speculators who had profited from a more than 800 percent surge this year
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| China to expand corporate tax cuts for hi-tech services firms nationwide |
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China will expand corporate tax rate cuts for high-tech services firms nationwide, in an effort to attract more foreign capital into its high tech, high value-added services industry
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| World needs new rules for powerful tech: Web Summit chief |
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Tech companies like Google and Facebook seem like monopolies and need new rules, the organizer of one of the world’s biggest technology summits said
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