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In this article AXP Pilot’s founders Jessica McKellar (CTO), Waseem Daher (CEO), Jeff Arnold (COO) Pilot Accounting start-up Pilot raised a new round of funding from Jeff Bezos and other Silicon Valley investors to help small businesses outsource back-office tasks. The San Francisco-based company closed a $100 million funding round this week, doubling its valuation
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying attends a news conference in Beijing, China January 21, 2021. Carlos Garcia Rawlins | Reuters BEIJING — China slapped sanctions on U.K. entities on Friday, saying that Britain’s sanctions on Chinese individuals over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang were based on “lies and disinformation.” The Ministry of Foreign
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Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube, at a fintech conference in London, on April 12, 2017. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — British start-up crowdfunding platforms Crowdcube and Seedrs agreed Thursday to terminate their £140 million ($192 million) merger, a day after regulators raised competition concerns with the deal. The U.K.
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Wells Fargo Securities’ Chris Harvey is building a major part of his strategy on a consumer comeback. From hotels to casinos to restaurants, many of this year’s winning trades will involve spending outside the home, the firm’s head of equity strategy predicts. “We really want exposure to the consumer,” Harvey told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on
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Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer is temporarily dialing back his appetite for stocks. On the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 bottom, he’s telling investors the market is in “no man’s land.” “We’re in this period where the Russell 1000 growth mega cap stocks aren’t oversold anymore and the cyclical or economic recovery theme isn’t extreme overbought
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The Federal Reserve has taken another step forward in efforts to ensure that the financial system is protected against climate risks. As the central bank turns its attention increasingly toward the matter, the Fed has created a Financial Stability Climate Committee and a Supervision Climate Committee. The panels will focus on “the potential for complex
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Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: AstraZeneca (AZN) – The drugmaker’s stock fell 2.9% in premarket trading after an independent monitoring board told U.S. health officials that the company may have given incomplete efficacy data from its Covid-19 vaccine trial. The Data Safety Monitoring Board said it wanted AstraZeneca
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