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Debt, AI and Ukraine dominated the conversation at the IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok, while China, the focus in 2018, slipped into the background. The world's finance chiefs spent last week in Bangkok debating the biggest risk facing the global economy — with debt, artificial intelligence and trade imbalances topping the list. Meanwhile, China, long a main risk factor in these discussions, was no longer at the top of the.

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On Kalshi, Anthropic is seen as the last major IPO in 2026 after OpenAI delayed its public market debut. Others have postponed too. Heading into 2026, investors were excited at the prospect of a host of new initial public offerings, including ones from megacap private companies like SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. But now investors will have to settle for less than they expected at the start of the year, with.

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With $5 billion already deployed off its balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is racing ahead on direct investments in defense tech, hardware and supply chains. JPMorgan Chase has made $5 billion in startup investments in the first year of its U.S. security and resiliency initiative, the company said Monday, a faster-than-expected pace that indicates the bank is finding plentiful opportunities in emerging defense, manufacturing and supply chain firms. The bank, which.

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Investors may want to rethink their bond allocation and opt for managed futures exposure. Investors may want to rethink their bond allocation and opt for managed futures exposure. DBi's Andrew Beer suggests the popular hedge fund strategy could deliver a modern twist to traditional 60/40 portfolios. "Bonds have been dead money for the entire decade," the firm's co-founder and managing member told CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week. "I fell in.

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Less than four months into life as a public company, Bending Spoons got a big vote of confidence this week from Berkshire Hathaway. At the time of its Nasdaq debut in July, Bending Spoons was a little-known holding company out of Italy that owned older internet names like AOL, Vimeo, Eventbrite and Evernote. Less than four months later, the Milan-based firm has emerged as a surprising home for former high-flying.

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The U.S. raised market access issues for Mastercard and Citigroup in China during bilateral meetings in Bangkok this week, a U.S. Treasury official says. BANGKOK – U.S. officials pressed Beijing on market access issues for Mastercard Inc and Citigroup Inc during at least two bilateral meetings with Chinese counterparts in Bangkok this week, according to a U.S. Treasury official. The Treasury delegation, led by Deputy Secretary Francis Brooke, held bilateral.