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. Alibaba will thrive as it dominates new markets in China, according to Goldman Sachs. The firm reiterated …

Gabriella Demczuk | AFP | Getty Images Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 27, 2018. A 1983 letter written by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh described himself and his Georgetown Preparatory School classmates as “loud, obnoxious drunks …

Nord Stream 2 | Axel Schmidt Nord Stream 2 pipes are loaded onto a vessel in the northern German port of Mukran for transshipment to a storage yard. President Donald Trump has previously expressed his disapproval for Nord Stream 2, warning Western companies investing in the pipeline that they are …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images People are silhouetted against the Instagram logo at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook-owned Instagram was down for some users for around 45 minutes on Wednesday. Users on Twitter complained about the service being down. CNBC also checked Instagram and the …

Joshua Roberts | Reuters Jeff Bezos, president and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, speaks at the Economic Club of Washington DC’s “Milestone Celebration Dinner” in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2018.  Amazon’s chiefJeff Bezos wants to build low-cost infrastructure that can help the next generation become space …

Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 4, 2018 in San Jose, California. Apple CEO Tim Cook hit out at tech companies that claim more customer data leads to superior products, saying that’s a …

Torsten Silz | AFP | Getty Images A woman picks tulips in a field in the central German town of Heppenheim on April 16, 2010.  The biggest U.S. cryptocurrency company has reportedly been valued at billions of dollars and that’s a bullish sign for the industry’s legitimacy, according to former …

Cannabis stocks fell across the board Tuesday after PepsiCo told investors that the food and beverage giant said it has no plans to invest in marijuana. Though most of the marijuana stocks opened Tuesday without much fanfare, they took a leg lower after PepsiCo Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston told …

Ron Galella | Ron Galella Collection | Getty Images Fred Trump and Donald Trump attend 38th Annual Horatio Alger Awards Dinner on May 10, 1985 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.  New York state tax officials are investigating allegations detailed in an exhaustive New York Times investigation into …

Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association September 19, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. Amazon’s latest experiment to promote its own products — like toilet paper, …