In 2010, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega warned of the possibility of “currency wars” as countries sought to devalue their exchange rates to gain competitive advantage. Brazil's economy may currently be less in favor internationally, but that …
In particular, the dotcom billionaires' space companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX, are bidding for Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A — site of NASA's first and last space shuttle blast-off. Each company's plan for 39A is to launch both …
Thanks to Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' backing, Blue Origin is one of the country's most financially stable rocket ventures, but it has also had one of the lowest profiles—until now. Now the company, based in an industrial area south of Seattle …
Billionaires, movie stars, snakes and curses all figure in a scandal swirling around a Chinese spiritual adviser after he allegedly threatened a reporter who questioned his powers with death. Wang Lin, 61, a self-proclaimed master of Qigong, a …
Just when India's biggest stimulus package in a decade was close to paying off, a cash crunch engineered by the central bank to shore up the rupee has pushed borrowing costs for leading companies back above 10 percent. Billionaire Anil Ambani's …
(KGO) — San Francisco's mayor and the Chinese Consul General were among those who attended a memorial service Wednesday for the victims of Asiana Flight 214. Wang Lin Jia and Ye Meng Yuan, both 16-years-old, and 15-year-old Liu YiPeng were …
We formed this joint venture in order to take advantage of the opportunity to meet the tastes and demands of the extremely large and growing class of affluent people in Southeast Asia and Mainland China and the finacial rewards that can go along with …
The man who broke the most recent Anthony Weiner sexting scandal said that the embattled New York politician presented his marriage to young women as a sham and even planned to purchase a “secret bunker” in Chicago that could house real-life trysts.
He noted that Chicago is ground central for "the whole lifestyle craze that's sweeping the industry," popularized by retailers such as Crate & Barrel, Restoration Hardware and Pottery Barn. So one of The Dump's main efforts, he said, will be developing …