Category: Business
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Post Office campaigner Alan Bates marries partner on Richard Branson’s private island
[ad_1] The Post Office campaigner Alan Bates has married his partner, Suzanne Sercombe, on Richard Branson’s Necker Island in a ceremony officiated by the Virgin tycoon. The wedding took place last month on the entrepreneur’s private island in the British Virgin Islands, the Sunday Times reported. Branson reportedly invited the couple to the island after…
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Donald Trump threatens 100% tariff on countries that turn away from the dollar
[ad_1] Donald Trump pledged on Saturday to make it too costly for countries to shift away from using the US dollar, adding a new pillar to his tariff platform. “You leave the dollar and you’re not doing business with the United States because we are going to put a 100% tariff on your goods,”…
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Hillary Clinton says Kamala Harris should ‘bait’ Trump during their upcoming debate: ‘He can be rattled’
[ad_1] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has some advice for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the Democratic presidential nominee’s upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, jousted with Trump during three high-stakes debates that year. She recently told The New York Times that Harris should use her background as…
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The first thing OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s mother asked ChatGPT is hilarious
[ad_1] Mira Murati is OpenAI’s influential chief technology officer. Murati, an engineer, has been pivotal in developing ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 since 2018. During Cannes Lions, Murati shared her mother’s hilarious first reaction to ChatGPT. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app…
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Bill Gates says solving misinformation is now young people’s problem
[ad_1] “Misinformation is the one where I — a little bit — had to punt and say, ‘Okay, we’ve handed this problem to the younger generation,’” Gates, 68, said during an interview with CNBC published on Thursday. Misinformation has been a concern almost since the advent of the internet. There was a global reckoning around…
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Chaos club Everton reap the whirlwind of Premier League’s financial revolution | Jonathan Wilson
[ad_1] It’s 40 years since the greatest season in Everton’s history, when they won the league and the Cup Winners’ Cup and reached the FA Cup final. But it was a strange glory, coming as it did at a time when it was hard to see how English football, devastated by tragedy and disaster, could…
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Equifax (NYSE: EFX): A Bull Case Theory
[ad_1] Equifax (NYSE: EFX) is a global information services firm offering credit reporting, income and employment verification, as well as risk assessment services to financial companies, businesses, government institutions, and individual consumers. Originally named Retail Credit Company, Equifax boasts proprietary databases of consumer and business information, including utility payment and telephone data, wealth data from…
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U.S. debt is so massive, interest costs alone are now $3 billion a day
[ad_1] With U.S. debt now at $35.3 trillion, the cost of paying the interest on all that borrowing has soared recently and now averages out to $3 billion a day, according to Apollo chief economist Torsten Sløk. And that includes Saturdays and Sundays, he pointed out in a note on Tuesday. The daily interest expense…
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US intelligence official says Russian state media is pushing US voters toward Trump using Western influencers amid Putin’s claims Russia is backing Harris
[ad_1] Russian state media outlet RT is trying to sway voters toward former President Donald Trump ahead of the November election by using Western influencers, an unnamed US intelligence official told Reuters. The official said that RT, formerly known as Russia Today, had “built and used networks of US and other Western personalities to create…
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Labour’s first job is not to spend, but to fix the UK’s financial plumbing | Phillip Inman
[ad_1] Every time an upmarket home is bought in the UK, the new residents seem obliged to rip out the kitchen and install two bathrooms where there was only one. It is almost a cast-iron rule that walking across the threshold means paying builders to rearrange what was there before, almost for the sake of…