A former Barclays swaps trader, accused of rate-rigging, declined to testify at his trial, but spent much of it tweeting about politics, finance and, sometimes, the case itself.

Four times, US authorities went after famed Las Vegas sports gambler Billy Walters, and four times he emerged victorious. On Friday, his luck turned.

Macquarie Group looks set to acquire Britain's Green Investment Bank (GIB) after a court rejected the claim of a rival bidder on Friday.

BP has cut chief executive Bob Dudley's 2016 pay package by 40 per cent to $15.4 million, the latest British bluechip company to rein in executive pay after a wave of shareholder revolts.

A Canadian accused of hacking Yahoo! email accounts for Russia said he moved into a $C642,000 home at 20.

You could buy more than a dozen Sydney harbourview mansions.. or splurge out on this rare gem.

Jan Polanik has sued the donut chain for serving him "margarine or a butter substitute" instead of butter with his bagels for four years.

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Any horror aficionado knows that the only good zombie is a dead zombie. Don't risk trying to bring one back to life. It'll just come back to bite you.

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Twitter Inc is in a funk. Even the heavy involvement of "The Donald" has done little to turn the company's fortunes around.

Tesla says its first-quarter deliveries of its electric cars jump 69 per cent from a year ago to a quarterly record of 25,000 vehicles.

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When President Donald Trump berated Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull two months ago over 1,250 refugees the US agreed to accept from Australia, the phone conversation was perceived ominously: A decades-old alliance that was already strained by Australia's economic reliance on China was now being put under greater stress.

Toshiba shareholders have lashed out at management and lamented the downfall of the Japanese icon after its disastrous foray into nuclear energy.

The call from China's powerful police ministry comes after the Turnbull government's failure to secure ratification of the 2007 extradition treaty with Beijing.

There is more to income inequality than the famed 1 per cent versus the 99 per cent or standing chief executive officers next to average workers.

Tesla chief Elon Musk just gained a massive and well-connected confidant to help him better crack China's auto market: Tencent Holdings.

Iceland this week became the first country in the world to introduce legislation requiring employers to prove they are paying men and women equally.

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For the first time since the launch of the European project in the 1950s, the US no longer sees the EU as an asset in the diplomatic equation. Many in the White House would happily see it broken up.

The law aims to recoup revenue from some of the nation's biggest companies including Apple, BHP Billiton, Chevron and Crown.

Tax fights involving Amazon and Chevron will have major implications for other companies in long-running disputes.

China will substantially cut the number of sectors not open to foreign investment as it seeks fairer treatment for Chinese firms investing overseas.

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Airbnb has announced it's changing its local brand name in China and doubling its investment.

Major advertisers across Europe are still appearing alongside extremist YouTube videos days after technology giant Google said it was taking steps to protect its clients from inadvertently supporting hate.

A few hours after the New York market closed on February 1, an obscure Chicago artist by the name of Antonio Lee told the world he had become the world's richest man. He managed to issue his fabricated report in the most authoritative of places: The US Securities and Exchange Commission's database.

One of Barclays's most senior bankers in the US is retiring to fight for civil liberties amid concerns about the rights of Muslims, immigrants and women under President Donald Trump.

Investors are dialling back hopes that US President Donald Trump will swiftly enact his agenda. "If the vote doesn't pass, or is postponed, it will cast a lot of doubt on the Trump trades," says an influential bond trader.

There is a growing market for betting on an already unpredictable Trump presidency. Now, Paddy Power is hiring a "head of Trump betting" to oversee bets related to the US president and his administration.

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Middle Eastern airlines such as Emirates and Etihad Airways have been quietly worried that President Trump was going to retaliate over their government subsidies. Is this it?

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Maybe investors should forget the Trump trade and start prepping for the Trump correction. There's an undeniable "risk off" vibe reverberating through markets.

The scandal has put the entire meat industry in jeopardy and "destroyed" a hard-won image of quality products, meat producers say.