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Howard Schultz will step down as chief executive in April, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business.

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Steven Mnuchin will need all his Goldman Sachs wiles to win over Washington skeptics as Donald Trump's pick for the Treasury.

"You shouldn't have to be concerned about your safety while shopping for clothes or trying on a pair of jeans," the jeans company's boss says in an open letter posted on social media.

China's central government has ordered tighter controls on offshore investments made by state-owned enterprises amid concerns over accelerating capital outflows.

Call it sugar lite: Global food giant Nestlé says it has developed a type of sugar with markedly more sweetness, allowing the company to reduce the amount of sugar in its chocolates and lollies.

Chinese companies have been on a record acquisition spree, buying into everything from blood plasma to airline food. Here are 10 of the more surprising things Chinese money is buying.

If Mnuchin becomes Treasury secretary, he'll be the third Goldman Sachs alum in three decades to get the job as the President-elect surrounds himself with bankers and billionaires.

European Union officials lined up on Monday to underscore the warning of the Dutch finance minister that Brexit will prove a 'tough ride' for the British.

The Kellogg Company is pulling its ads from the website Breitbart News.

Lapo Elkann, grandson of late Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli, is facing charges in New York for falsely reporting he had been kidnapped, law enforcement sources said on Tuesday.

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Note to a new president on resolving a major issue.

At 26, John Collison, the co-founder of online payments service Stripe, has become the world's youngest self-made billionaire, according to Forbes.

For a man who practically invented the selfie, Kevin Systrom is remarkably unflash. Unfiltered, even.

Some ATMs now need to be filled every three hours, since the machines can hold only so much cash.

Greece's battered banks are being asked to swap about €33 billion ($47 billion) in floating-rate bonds for 30-year, fixed-rate securities.

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America's rate of growth has been slowing for decades, starting long before the onset of the global financial crisis.

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An American iPhone looks like just one more empty campaign promise. Here's why.

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Since the raids were conducted, there has been numerous theories around why Crown in particular was targeted.

When the rest of the world rings in the New Year, India's central bank will be grappling with a unique situation: how to deal with more than 23 billion worthless bank notes?

Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn't crack the top five in China's smartphone market. Now they're on top after elbowing Apple aside.

US President-elect Donald Trump has released a video laying out actions he'll take on his first day in office on January 20, including withdrawing the US from a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu is considering dropping a principle set by a former president encouraging staff to stick to a goal even to the point of death after a 24-year-old employee committed suicide because of overwork.

If investors don't bite at the Snap IPO, about $42 billion of unicorn wealth held by eight co-founders of Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Uber could crater.

More than 85 per cent of Tesla shareholders have voted in favour of its controversial SolarCity deal.

Analysts warn the iconic jeweller's busines might suffer from its close association with the real estate mogul and his home.

The founder of a Chinese brand of high-tech toilets called Trump said he had no intention of soiling the name of America's next president.

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Would you trust Donald Trump with $US20 trillion ($26.6 trillion) of debt? How about lending him another $US7 trillion or so on top of that? You wouldn't be alone in thinking twice about the prospect.

A former Newcastle woman is facing more than 35 years in a United States jail after being accused of being involved in one of the biggest insurance frauds in Californian history.