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By Tom Sims, John O'Donnell and Patricia Uhlig FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Qatari investors in Deutsche Bank want the lender's chairman to leave after he botched an attempt to appoint their envoy to the board, people familiar with the matter said.…

By Tom Sims, John O'Donnell and Patricia Uhlig FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Qatari investors in Deutsche Bank want the lender's chairman to leave after he botched an attempt to appoint their envoy to the board, people familiar with the matter said.…

Some credit Bayer AG (XTER: BAYN) with making the worst corporate deal in recent memory. With a market cap of about $62 billion, the German conglomerate's value is below what it paid for Monsanto last year. Even Houdini would have a difficult time making the …

One of Elizabeth Warren’s signature 2020 proposals is to break up big tech companies such as Facebook and Google—but this isn’t new territory for the senator. In June 2016, she gave a keynote speech addressing the threat of consolidation and concentration of …

In 1985, the Dow Jones average jumped 27.66 percent. Making money in stocks, as a journalist put it, "was easy." With lower interest rates, low inflation, and "takeover fever," investors could throw a dart at a list of stocks and profit. The next year was als…

By David Shepardson Oct 19 (Reuters) - A Goldman Sachs Group Inc investment banker was released on bond and placed on leave by the firm after allegedly being involved in an insider trading scheme, a bank spokeswoman said on Saturday. Bryan Cohen, a vice pre…

A bill recently introduced into Congress would help protect Native American seeds and their history. The bill, called the Native American Seeds Protection Act of 2019, has only a three percent chance of being enacted, according to Skopos Labs, an artificial …

This week, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot hit theaters for a limited engagement thanks to Fathom Events (read our review here), but it will also be touring the country for the next few months as part of the official Reboot Roadshow with Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith…

Kevin Smith almost died in February 2018, when he had a massive heart attack and was told he had an 80 percent chance of not making it. The filmmaker was at peace with the notion of passing on, seeing it as a high school graduation of sorts, moving on to…

Encore Boston Harbor president stepping down