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US companies are bringing cash home

For all the flaws of the tax reform that Congress passed back in December, there’s one area where it appears to be working: Getting US companies to bring back the enormous piles of money they have stashed abroad. Now the question is what they will do with it. Before 2018, the US government taxed companies’ foreign earnings in a highly ...

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It’s mission accomplished for the ECB, for now

The European Central Bank (ECB) has said it intends to end its bond-buying program at the end of this year. It was the right decision. The aim of the program was to stave off the threat of deflation, and that has been done. Nonetheless, risks remain, and the central bank can’t afford to ignore them. The euro-zone economy has come ...

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Crypto unicorns do battle while Bitcoin droops

The Hong Kong market is low-hanging fruit for shy but hungry unicorns. Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world’s dominant producer of cryptocurrency-mining equipment, is mulling a public listing, founder Jihan Wu told Blake Schmidt of Bloomberg News. Giving early backers such as Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital an exit is a fine gesture, sure, but the four-year-old Chinese company is rushing ...

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