Larry Fink, Chairman and C.E.O. of BlackRock arrives at the DealBook Summit in New York City, November 30, 2022. David Dee Delgado | Reuters LONDON — BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is facing calls to step down from activist investor Bluebell Capital over the company’s alleged “hypocrisy” on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) messaging. Fink
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Pictured here are locals on a subway in Zhengzhou city, Henan province, on Dec. 5, 2022, after the municipality said negative nucleic acid test results are no longer needed to ride public transportation. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s Covid lockdowns are having a lessening impact on the economy for
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates, onstage at the Web Summit 2022 tech conference. Ben McShane | Sportsfile via Getty Images Venture capitalist Tim Draper thinks bitcoin will hit $250,000 a coin by the middle of 2023, even after a bruising year for the cryptocurrency
Investors may get a wake-up call this winter when it comes to taxes, but it doesn’t have to be that way. According to BNY Mellon’s Ben Slavin, it’s a key time to sell losing investments in order to cut down on capital gains. He warns waiting until January or February may be too late. “Mutual
The economist Austan Goolsbee will take over as president of the Chicago Federal Reserve early next year as the central bank weighs critical policy moves ahead, according to an announcement Thursday. Goolsbee will take the seat officially on Jan. 9, 2023 and finish a term begun by the retiring Charles Evans that expires Feb. 28,
In this article .HSI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Red lanterns are hung up on the street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. (Photo by Zhang Wei/China News Service via Getty Images) China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Hong Kong’s benchmark index soared 26.6% in November – the Hang Seng index’s
Residents queue at a Covid-19 testing booth in Beijing, China, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. The capital city has required regular virus tests for more than half a year. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Local frustration with Covid controls in China has increasingly targeted virus testing requirements and the big business they’ve
Customers dine in at a McDonald’s in Guangzhou on Dec. 1, 2022, a day after the city eased Covid restrictions on restaurant operations. Yin Hon Chow | CNBC BEIJING — A trickle of changes around China’s Covid controls in the last 24 hours has raised hopes that broader relaxation is on its way. Local state
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The bitcoin logo displayed on a smartphone with euro banknotes in the backgrouund. Andrea Ronchini | NurPhoto via Getty Images The European Central Bank gave a strong critique of bitcoin on Wednesday, saying the cryptocurrency is on a “road to irrelevance.” In a blogpost titled
TreeCard offers users a spending and money management platform tied to a debit card made from wood. TreeCard TreeCard, a climate-conscious digital money app, raised $23 million from investors in a new financing round. Founded by British entrepreneur Jamie Cox in October 2020, TreeCard is a novel concept in the fintech world. It offers users