The global health-care industry faces a “huge disruption” as technology heavyweights jostle for consumers with traditional providers, the chief executive of a major pharmaceutical company said. Yitzhak Peterburg, interim president and CEO at Teva Pharmaceutical, told CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual June meeting in Dalian that digital disruption is an […]
Read moreChina is sending a “remarkably strong signal” about stemming capital outflows by going after big companies, said Eswar Prasad, the former head of the IMF‘s China division. “I think there is a concern here that corporate outflows, among other types of outflows, may be providing a cover for the illegitimate capital outflows, the capital flight […]
Read moreChina‘s economic growth will accelerate because the country will finally get leaders who aren’t scared, a former adviser to China’s central bank said Wednesday. “The most important reason is that there is a new group of officials being appointed … (who will emerge) around the 19th Party Congress which will be in mid to late […]
Read moreTechnology companies, whose recent share volatility has captured much attention worldwide, have “more substance” now compared with the dotcom boom, the chief executive of a global investment firm said. Thomas Finke, chairman and CEO of Barings, told CNBC at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China that companies such as Amazon are […]
Read moreU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson agreed to work toward seeking a resolution to a Saudi Arabia-led effort to isolate Qatar, the gulf country’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Tillerson met with Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani this week, the first meeting since the blockade began, the statement said. “The […]
Read moreFormer Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly praised her “friend,” former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, at an event on Tuesday and suggested he might not have known about the toxic culture at Uber because the company grew so quickly. “I just don’t think he knew,” Mayer said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “When your company […]
Read moreOver the years, Jim Cramer found that when it comes to investing, some of the best advisors have been none other than his two teenage daughters. “We all know that teenagers are incorrigible. The last thing they want to hear about is stocks. They have bigger fish to fry. To which I say, so what? […]
Read moreInvesting for children can be tricky, but Jim Cramer says that if you do it right, it can leave your loved ones much better off by the time they grow up than if you avoid it altogether. “Parents, grandparents, listen up. You can give all sorts of things to families that had just had babies. […]
Read moreIn 2013, Facebook was collaborating with researchers on a major campaign to encourage its users to get flu shots, but scrapped the plan for unknown reasons in 2014 after months of work had been done, according to a person with direct knowledge. The idea was to pick a public health issue to determine whether targeting […]
Read moreThere used to be a widespread understanding in the stock market that stocks could be here today and gone tomorrow, but Jim Cramer finds that is not the case anymore. “We’ve gone well beyond that,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Those days are long over, and if you recommend a stock for a trade, even […]
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