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China fintech companies find new opportunities in small business loans

Matthias Doering | Bloomberg | Getty Images An Alipay digital payment app logo and smartphone sit on a desktop at the Wirecard AG headquarters in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. China’s push to encourage lending to smaller companies has created a business opportunity for large financial technology companies. …

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How to disable FaceTime

Yves Herman | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a keynote during the European Union’s privacy conference at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium October 24, 2018. There’s a massive privacy bug on iPhones that lets people call you with FaceTime to hear you and see you — even if …

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Apple FaceTime bug lets you listen even if someone doesn’t answer

Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple launch event in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., October 30, 2018.  There’s a FaceTime bug that lets you hear through someone else’s iPhone, even if they haven’t answered your phone call. It was previously reported on …

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Stocks could be in for a sharper decline as Apple, big tech firms report

Some technical strategists who say the S&P 500 could fall further, see a drop of 5 percent as a possibility with the S&P dipping to a support level of around 2,500. But some analysts, like Keon, say more than declining, it would not be surprising if the market becomes locked …

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Americans don’t want Trump to use national emergency for border wall

Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. President Donald Trump shouldn’t expect much support from Americans if he declares a national emergency to build his proposed border …

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Whirlpool, AK Steel, Sanmina and more

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee works on a Whirlpool washing machine at the company’s operations plant in Clyde, Ohio. AK Steel shares jumped more than 10 percent after hours, earning back its loses from the trading session. The stock was downgraded by Morgan Stanley earlier on …

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Judge abruptly cancels Paul Manafort’s sentencing in Virginia case

Mark Wilson | Getty Images Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse for a hearing on June 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. A federal judge Monday canceled former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s sentencing in his Virginia case, which was scheduled for Feb. …

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The worst performing Dow stock this year is about to report earnings. Here’s what to expect

Pfizer has gone from first to worst. The pharma giant soared nearly 20 percent in 2018, and was the Dow’s second-best performer behind Merck. But so far 2019 has been a very different story for the stock. It’s the biggest drag on the Dow this month, with the shares losing …

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These stocks can be the next blowups on China slowdown after Caterpillar and Nvidia

Vincent Isore/IP3 | Getty Images SHANGHAI, CHINA – FEBRUARY 23: The Chinese flag floats before the skyscrapers of multinational corporations on February 23, 2018 in Shanghai, China. Another two major U.S. companies blamed China for weaker earnings — construction machinery giant Caterpillar and chipmaker Nvidia — and their shares both …

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US files extradition request for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou

Alexander Bibik | Reuters Meng Wanzhou, Executive Board Director of the Chinese technology giant Huawei, attends a session of the VTB Capital Investment Forum “Russia Calling!” in Moscow, Russia October 2, 2014. The U.S. Department of Justice filed criminal charges Monday for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China …

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