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Broadway Revival of ‘Children of a Lesser God’ to Open in April

Photo From left, Joshua Jackson, John McGinty, Lauren Ridloff and Julee Cerda in “Children of a Lesser God,” staged by the Berkshire Theater Group. The production is to open on Broadway in April. Credit Matthew Murphy “Children of a Lesser God,” the 1980 drama about the relationship between a deaf …

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Here are the stocks the top-performing hedge funds are buying

Big hedge fund managers such as David Einhorn and Bill Ackman get much of the attention, but there are under-the-radar stars that are performing even better. Who are these top stock pickers and what stocks are they buying? CNBC used Symmetric.io, a hedge fund tracking firm, to find the best …

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Under Communist party China’s economy addicted to debt

VCG | VCG | Getty Images An investor obverses the screen at an exchange hall on the first day of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect on December 5, 2016 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, China’s manufacturing and export dependent economy crumpled and …

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The top hedge funds at technology stock picking like these 10 names

Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images Chinese online retail giant Alibaba CEO Jack Ma (C) waves as he arrives at the New York Stock Exchange in New York on September 19, 2014. The best hedge funds for technology stock picking are betting on China, social media and gaming. Technology …

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Review: Boys Become Men in the Unsettling ‘The Wound’

Photo Nakhane Touré as a man conflicted about his sexuality in this South African film from John Trengove. Credit Kino Lorber Young men and their elders together experiencing the rigors of the wilderness is a kind of rite all over the world. It can be a time of self-discovery and …

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A Netflix executive described its future without Disney

Victor Chavez | Getty Images Netflix content executive director, Ted Sarandos attends the Vive Netflix 2017 at Museo Casa de la Bola on August 2, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico. Disney made big waves recently when it said it would remove its movies from Netflix by 2019. But in an …

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Deutsche Bank says it will replace US chief with stock trading head

Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters 2016A statue is seen next to the logo of Germany’s Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Bank is replacing its U.S. chief Bill Woodley with the global head of its stock trading business Thomas Patrick, the German lender said on Tuesday. As head of U.S. operations, …

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‘Hamilton’ Tries New Sales Method to Battle Bots and Scalpers

Photo Javier Muñoz, left, and Christopher Jackson in “Hamilton,” in 2015. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times “Hamilton,” the hit musical that has struggled to combat profiteering by scalpers, is trying a new tack with its next block of Broadway tickets: a technology from Ticketmaster that scrutinizes the purchase histories …

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Amazon’s debt offering to fund Whole Foods acquisition includes 40-year bond

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shoppers exit a Whole Foods Market location in Naperville, Ill. Amazon.com announced Tuesday a private debt offering to fund its acquisition of Whole Foods Market. The debt is set to price later Tuesday and will be broken into seven parts ranging from three-year …

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US business inventories June 2017

Joshua Roberts | Reuters Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaks at 2017 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Oxon Hill, Maryland, U.S., June 19, 2017. U.S. business inventories recorded their biggest increase in seven months in June as retailers accumulated stock at a brisk clip amid signs of a pickup in domestic …

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