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Tax-avoiding firms face higher investment costs due to lack of transparency

Companies that engage in aggressive tax avoidance may be saving money in the short term, but they are paying a hidden price in the eyes of investors. According to a new study by the University of Portsmouth, tax transparency is rewarded in capital markets while secrecy raises the cost of finance.

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Key Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Taro and delivered to your inbox for free!Don’t squander the reverse interviewAt the end of every…

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Ford Has Steered Its Former EV Truck and Plant Plans in to a Ditch

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Financial Markets Have Best Regulatory Tools: Tenev

Robinhood rolls out updates to its AI assistant and prediction market offerings. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev addressed concerns about integrity and consumer protection in prediction markets. He said that sports-prediction markets are regulated entirely differently from sports betting, and have had the …

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CVS Health's Chaguturu on Oak Street, Tech Investment

Sree Chaguturu, CVS Health Executive Vice President and President of Health Care Delivery, says the fee for service model is broken and that value based care is critical to the future of health care. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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OpenAI reportedly could raise $10B+ in funding from Amazon

OpenAI Group PBC is in talks to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc., The Information reported late Tuesday. The retail and cloud giant is no stranger to investing in large language model startups. It’s the biggest backer of Anthropic PBC, OpenAI’s top rival. A few weeks ago, Amazon Web S…

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Apples 13-inch M4 MacBook Air is back on sale for just $749 ahead of the holidays

The 13-inch M4 Apple MacBook Air is on sale for just $749 at Amazon and Best Buy (or $250 off). That's a record-low price for most of its colorways.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announces departure of AI exec Rohit Prasad in leadership shakeup

Prasad's exit comes after Amazon struggled to show its internal AI efforts could match those of rivals—and just as reports surface that Amazon is discussing a big investment into OpenAI

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BlackRock to Match ‘Trump Account’ Contributions for Employees

BlackRock Inc. will match government contributions to “Trump accounts” for its employees, making it one of the first major US companies to lay out plans for supporting the early-childhood savings program.

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Electric vehicles cause tension in the automotive aftermarket

At SEMA, we heard Trump-like talking points but saw skateboard chassis, too.

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Robinhood looks better placed than Coinbase for prediction-market upside, Mizuho says

Robinhood stands to gain more from prediction markets than Coinbase as users plan to deploy fresh capital rather than sell existing crypto, the bank said.

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Medline’s IPO underscores broad investor appetite for a sleepy corner of the healthcare business

Medline’s stock soared more than 40% above its IPO price on Wednesday, its first day of trading.

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Eli Lilly’s stock has crushed Nvidia’s in recent weeks. What history has to say about that.

“History suggests Nvidia should modestly beat Eli Lilly over the next roughly two months,” notes a DataTrek analyst — but there are some caveats

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South Korea’s market moonshot is a model for other economies

Corporate governance reforms are spurring a sharp re-rating of local shares with the Kospi index up 69% this year

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Warner Bros. rejects Paramount's bid, accuses it of "consistently misleading" shareholders

Warner Brothers Discovery has rejected Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid, saying it carries many risks and is inferior to Netflix's offer. The company's board said the Ellison family that controls Paramount "consistently misled" them about guarantees and urged shareholders not to sell them …

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A Facebook test makes link-sharing a paid feature for creators

Creators and publishers have long worried about Meta's ability to throttle links to outside content. Now, the company is testing out a new scheme that effectively puts link-sharing behind a paywall for creators on Facebook.Under the test, a Meta Verified subscription will determine how many links a …

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