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Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, announced a 50% increase in the country's minimum wage on Sunday. Due to hyperinflation, the increase only works out to almost $13 a month.

Hong Kong's real estate market has gone through the roof since the U.K. handed it back to China in 1997.

Faced with Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has struggled to get what he hoped for from China's giant economy, experts say.

The financial mess in Illinois is the inevitable result of Illinois continuously spending more on pensions and services than it can afford.

The Wall Street bull is still raging even though there seems to be new turmoil in the Trump White House on an almost daily basis. And experts think the stock market gains may continue as long as earnings growth stays healthy.

Is a recession looming in Britain? That's the question being asked in hushed voices across the U.K.

A number of big U.K. banks have stopped offering and exchanging Qatari riyals, nearly four weeks after the start of a Saudi-backed boycott.

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The Dow fell 200 points and the Nasdaq really took it on the chin as big tech stocks fell sharply. But the market is still having a great year. Are traders merely just cashing in winners ahead of the end of the quarter and long weekend?

A woman who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in a hedge fund operated by Martin Shkreli testified at his fraud trial that it took over a year to get her money returned.

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U.K. media regulator Ofcom has published a report that examined the high-profile scandals at Fox News.

Staples is selling itself to a private-equity firm in hopes of engineering a turnaround away from the scrutiny of Wall Street.

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It's been ten years since the first iPhone came out. Android may now have a bigger market share, but Apple's stock has been a better performer than Google owner Alphabet over the past decade. Will that trend continue?

India's government is planning to sell its stake in Air India. The buyer may have to take on $8 billion debt.

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Firms that measure, manage and report climate change risk will be rewarded, says Unilever's finance chief.

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