This private deal was one of the year’s biggest art transactions, after Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II had gained 71 per cent since 2006.

A new company has been drawn into the president's ongoing skirmishes with corporate America.

TV maker Vizio has been accused of secretly collecting - and selling - data about its customers' locations, demographics and viewing habits.

Despite a 99 per cent failure rate and a recent setback, Alzheimer's researchers are plowing ahead with hundreds of experiments - and a boost in US federal money - to try to crack a deadly disease that has flummoxed them for decades.

​Nearly 100 companies, including some of high-tech's biggest names, joined a legal brief opposing President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, arguing that it would give companies incentives to move jobs outside the United States.

US President Donald Trump's economic honeymoon could come to an end as soon as next year, senior London fund managers have forecast, with the US at risk of plunging into recession.

As he prepared to sign orders designed to roll back bank regulations enacted to stop the next financial crisis, President Donald Trump said that the rules are stifling lending.

The chief executive officer of Cargill, the largest privately held US company, has become the latest corporate leader to voice concerns about immigration and trade protectionism.

China will severely punish people involved in illegal financing activities, especially targeting underground banks and the stock market.

As Donald Trump Jr. tried to step from the shadow of his billionaire father, he forged a long-running business partnership with an energetic dealmaker from Utah who has been dogged by lawsuits, bankruptcies and business failures.

Launching Alibaba's Australian headquarters, billionaire founder Jack Ma said the Chinese e-commerce giant would help Australian and New Zealand businesses share their products with the world.

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Snap is aiming to adopt the most shareholder-unfriendly governance in an initial public offering, ever.

President Donald Trump is moving to loosen rules enacted after the financial crisis that restrict the way Wall St operates.

US luxury department store chain is winding down its relationship with the controversial Ivanka Trump brand after boycott threats and concerns about the first daughter's conflicts of interest.

Snap, maker of Snapchat, has file documents for its sharemarket float, the first social media IPO since Twitter three years ago. It could turn its boss Evan Spiegel and supermodel fiancee Miranda Kerr into one of the world's richest young couples.

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Well, that was quick. Ralph Lauren has announced that Stefan Larsson, the superstar CEO appointed to revive the struggling lifestyle brand little more than a year ago, would leave the company in May, citing clashes with founder and chairman Ralph Lauren on how to jump-start the business.

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After a week in NYC and plenty of discussions, I can tell you that no one knows what impact Trump will have.

Edgar Sia was studying architecture when he dropped out at 19 to start a business venture with classmates. Now 40, he ranks among the youngest tycoons in the Philippines.

Bacon lovers have nothing to fear. The truth is this: there will be no rationing at breakfast.

The uncertain fate of Xiao Jianhua, a China-born billionaire who was last seen at a luxury Hong Kong hotel a week ago, has raised fresh fears about the city's autonomy amid media reports he may have been abducted by Chinese agents.

Abe says it is not accurate to say that Japan is devaluing the yen, and that he would explain Japan's monetary policy to Trump if necessary.

A Chinese-born billionaire with financial ties to Beijing was reportedly kidnapped by Chinese police from Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel.

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The phone calls flew back and forth among the top US chief executives over the weekend, all asking the same questions: "What are you going to say publicly about Trump's executive order? And what can we say about it without becoming his next punching bag?"

Sony said it will take a 112 billion yen ($1.3 billion) writedown in its movie business after reviewing the future profitability of its operations.

Most US corporate bosses have stayed silent on President Donald Trump's immigration curbs.

Always an innovator, Tesla founder Elon Musk has asked the public for help in rewriting Donald Trump's controversial immigration bill.

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If China's sustainable growth rate does fall as far and as fast as I have suggested is possible, how would the Chinese authorities react?

For all the hand-wringing, Donald Trump needs China's help to fulfil some of his campaign pledges.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have expressed optimism that the United States will move ahead as a nation, even as it works through political differences and gets used to the new Trump administration.