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President Joe Biden plans to call for quadrupling of the one percent surcharge on stock buybacks during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) paid a brief, but extremely lucrative, visit to South Korea on November 16, signing about $75 billion worth of investment agreements in less than 24 hours.

An attack Monday by unknown hackers idled the website of the Polish government office regulating public investment.

Adam Townsend, investor and venture capitalist, advised political observers to monetize their knowledge through investment while warning against the wasteful expenditure of emotional capital on Monday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.

NEW YORK — Neil Young has become the latest musician to strike gold with his song catalogue, selling a 50 percent stake in his music to a British investment company in a deal announced on Wednesday.

The Swedish city of Gothenburg is looking to spend over a billion U.S. dollars in an effort to remove the city’s six no-go zones from a police list of vulnerable neighbourhoods.

China is set to invest “hundreds of billions of yuan” into essential manufacturing and technology projects through a joint venture between the country’s industry ministry and the state-backed China Development Bank, the government announced Friday.

The government of India is stepping in to help local manufacturers develop alternatives to Chinese imports, and is officially asking consumers to boycott Chinese products in retaliation for the border skirmish that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead last week.

The outgoing Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, has wasted no time in settling into his new role as U.N. special envoy for global climate action, warning Monday the world faces irreversible heating unless firms turn away from their former investment priorities.

Riyadh — Wall Street titans smiled and schmoozed at a Saudi investment conference widely shunned last year over a critic’s murder, but as wariness lingers some delegates kept their name cards discreetly out of sight.

Investors are shrugging off Project Fear and committing to a future in London, as several measures show the city continues to be a global capital for finance.

The Atlanta Fed’s Business Expectations survey showed expectations for growth in capital spending rising for the third consecutive month.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still deliberating what to do about regulating foreign investments in Israel amid concerns on the part of U.S. and Israeli security forces over the alarming pace of Chinese investments in Israeli infrastructure. 

The United Kingdom’s unemployment rate has fallen to a 45-year low, according to a report released Tuesday.

European investment in the United Kingdom has more than doubled since 2016, signalling EU investors see a positive outlook in the long-term post-Brexit.

The world’s top wealth fund has put a 30-year wager on the UK being stronger outside of the European Union.

Elon Musk may be considering taking Tesla private for all the wrong reasons.

Israel‘s economy grew an annualized 4.5 percent in the first quarter of 2018, faster than previously thought, boosted by gains in consumer spending, investment and export, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a second estimate.

The State Department’s top official on Africa told reporters on Monday that Washington is growing concerned with China’s presence on the continent, particularly the “high rates of indebtedness” incurred by African countries accepting concessionary loans from Beijing.

According to Twitter’s 2017 annual report, the company’s $70 million investment in the audio streaming platform SoundCloud was a huge failure.

UK companies can expect a surge in dealmaking this year as the nation retains its place as the third most favourable destination for companies to invest.

In an in-person meeting in Tokyo on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced a mammoth cooperation package that will infuse the Philippine economy with billions in infrastructure, business, and public safety initiatives.

At the direction of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government is preparing “tweetable” financial data for Abe’s upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump.

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is planning on investing at least $7 billion in a display-making plant in the United States, company chairman and chief executive Terry Gou said on Sunday.

General Motors announced Tuesday that it will invest $1 billion in U.S. plants amid pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to keep jobs in the U.S.

The New York Post reports on the latest case from the much-abused EB-5 “investor’s visa” program, which the open-borders lobby routinely insists is working just fine.

With the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) looming, pro-EU voices are already seeking to claim that pulling out of the EU would mean a loss of jobs within the UK. They say that one in ten

Former PIMCO boss Bill Gross has just filed a lawsuit against PIMCO seeking $200 million and claiming to be a victim–despite the company receiving a “Wells Notice” warning that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating potential criminal violations in investment performance reporting during Gross’s tenure.

Breitbart News reported in January that farmland prices were estimated to have fallen 3 percent, for their first fall since 1986. But the Chicago Federal Reserve just upped the decline to 8.9 percent, and “Grant’s Interest Rate Observer” warns that farmland

Following Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley’s warning last week at the South-by-Southwest conference (SXSW) that “we are in a risk bubble”, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times all sounded the claxon horn Monday morning that New York hedge funds and mutual funds are flooding into late-stage venture capital-back tech companies in the futile hope of making a killing when the firms go public.