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Bitcoin futures market is no bubble bellwether

Bitcoin just passed its first major Wall Street test, but cryptocurrency bulls shouldn’t read too much into it. Bitcoin futures began trading on the evening of December 10, Sunday on the CBOE—the first ‘Wall Street’ exchange to list the digital currency — and the direction was straight up. By 11:30pm New York time, the contract had already been halted twice ...

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The British are taking back control of the boardroom

The UK has long prided itself on being open for business. Its top 100 publicly traded companies derive most of their revenue from overseas and boast a higher proportion of foreign bosses than the US, Germany and France. But that diversity is starting to fade — just as Brexit looms large. Recruitment firm Robert Half estimated earlier this year that ...

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Noodles give Hong Kong’s IPO market indigestion

Not tech, not interested.That seems to be the mantra of investors in Hong Kong as an instant-noodle spinoff fell as much as 12.4 percent in its debut on Monday and Hebei Construction Group Corp. was said to price its IPO at the bottom of the indicative range. The unit of Nissin Foods Co. is just one of a handful of ...

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