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Driverless cars and future of parking

Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Waymo got the green light to test its driverless vehicles in California, an expansion of the program currently underway in Arizona. Waymo’s minivans will be driving in a swath of Silicon Valley around its headquarters, an area the company says it knows well. If — or when — Waymo and other driverless-car operators expand into denser urban ...

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Credit Suisse fails to shrink to greatness

Credit Suisse Group AG CEO Tidjane Thiam likes to be clear about what he can and can’t control as he tries to turn around the Swiss bank. While he has been able to contain risk, slash costs and raise capital, top-line revenue is out of his hands, he told Bloomberg Television. The not-so-small catch for investors: Revenue is exactly where ...

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Why US share of global wealth keeps growing

There has been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the re-emergence of undemocratic regimes around the world and the collapse of the US-led global order established after the Cold War. The data in the Global Wealth Reports, published annually by Credit Suisse, could provide a clue to some of the economic dynamics underlying these trends. The reports track ...

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