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Clodagh Kilcoyne | Getty Images Conor McGregor in a file photo dated October 22, 2015 in Dublin, Ireland. The MMA boxer has retracted an earlier statement claiming to retire from the UFC circuit on Thursday, April 22, 2016. UFC star Conor McGregor has turned himself into police in the wake …

Eliot Blondet | AFP | Getty Images Leaders attend the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. “We really need to have reciprocity and we really need to …

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks before signing trade sanctions against China on March 22, 2018, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2018. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has instructed the United States Trade …

Diego Vara | Reuters Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is greeted by supporters during a rally in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil March 19, 2018. Brazilian stocks jumped on Thursday after a court ruled that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can …

Chesnot | Getty Images Digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin. Japan unveiled proposed guidelines for the legalization of a controversial means of raising money in the cryptocurrency space. A government-backed research group has put forward rules that would see initial coin offerings (ICOs) given regulatory definition and …

JASON REDMOND | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith speaks during the annual Microsoft shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Washington on November 29, 2017. Microsoft is letting firms it works with on joint ventures keep patent and design rights for the technology it collaborates on. …

Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Tesla car dealership in Shanghai taken on March 17, 2015. The U.S. firm Tesla doesn’t provide numbers of deliveries to China but does offer revenue data, suggesting sales worth around $2 billion in 2017. According to Evercore, Tesla could, therefore, be a big …

Dan Kitwood | Getty Images A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin on October 24, 2017 in London, England. Bitcoin is likely to fare worse than other assets in the coming months because it has no fundamental worth, an investment research firm said in a note Thursday. London-based Capital …

Maria Bastone | AFP | Getty Images A trader (c) on the New York Stock Exchange looks at stock rates 19 October 1987 as stocks were devastated during one of the most frantic days in the exchange’s history. Stock markets could see sharp falls before the end of year as …

Joe Raedle | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe at Mar-a-Lago resort on February 10, 2017. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government faced criticism on Thursday, after his defense minister said the army last year found activity logs from a controversial 2004 to 2006 …