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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.

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Increasing government spending on healthcare could help boost consumption in China, the International Monetary Fund said. BEIJING — High healthcare costs are a big factor driving people in China to save, rather than spend, their money, the International Monetary Fund pointed out in a new book titled "Toward a New Economic Growth Model for China." In rural China, 8.7% of disposable income is spent on healthcare — just second to.

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The latest 12-month period marked the strongest return for the university's fund since 2021. Harvard University's endowment grew 27.1% in fiscal year 2026, its strongest return in five years, the school said in its annual financial report released on Thursday. The endowment, which beat the S&P 500's 22.3% total return in the same period by 4.8 percentage points, now totals nearly $68 billion. The outperformance came amid actions by the.

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European trade commissioner Maroš Sefčovič met with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing last week. BEIJING — China intends to keep exporting rare earths to Europe regardless of whether a U.S. trade deal with Beijing gets extended past January. The world's second-largest economy is willing to continue approving rare earth licenses to Europe, China's Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yadong told CNBC when asked on Thursday about the impact of.

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Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic’s Mythos, offering a rare look at costs involved in defending against AI. Bank of America has hired an army of external contractors to help it patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial intelligence models including Anthropic's Mythos, the bank's CEO, Brian Moynihan, told CNBC on Wednesday. In an interview after the bank's third-quarter earnings release, Moynihan said.