Alessandro Di Ciommo | NurPhoto | Getty Images CEO of Softbank Group Masayoshi Son attending a news conference in Tokyo on February 8, 2017. Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat is in early talks to invest in Softbank Group’s private equity fund that aims to target the technology sector, its chief …

Getty Images General Motors vehicles go through assembly after GM celebrated the official launch of the Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric vehicle at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly November 30, 2010 in Detroit, Michigan. General Motors (GM) has proposed a $2.8 billion fresh investment in South Korea over the next 10 years as …

Getty Images Vice President Mike Pence(L) talks at the meeting with Fred Warmbier, the father of Otto warmbier who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months and North Korean defectors at the meeting room in the South Korean Navy 2nd Fleet Commnad on February 9, 2018 in Pyeongtaek, South …

Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images This photo taken on November 15, 2016 shows a general view of the northern Seoul city skyline and Han river, as seen from the landmark 63 tower. South Korea said on Wednesday that it is signing trade agreements with five Central American nations …

Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates leaves Federal Court on December 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Charged Oct. 27, 2017Pleaded not guilty Oct. 30, 2017 Gates was a lobbyist, a Trump campaign official and a longtime associate of Manafort’s. His charges, announced on …

Bitcoin is back. The cryptocurrency surged Tuesday, closing in on the $12,000 level. One bitcoin bull says progress on the regulatory front could send it even higher. According to CNBC “Fast Money” trader Brian Kelly, Tuesday’s rally is the result of more crypto-friendly attitudes by government regulators. Not only did …

Getty Images Tyra Heman (R) a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, holds a sign that reads, ‘Enough No Guns,’ as she is hugged in front of the school where 17 people that were killed on February 14, on February 19, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. American voters by a …

Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks about the mass shooting at a Florida high school in a national address from the White House in Washington, U.S., February 15, 2018. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has recommended that “bump stocks,” or devices used to make semi-automatic weapons …

Noriko Hayashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees fit a dashboard unit on the Prius hybrid and Prius plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHV) production line at the Toyota Motor Corp. Tsutsumi plant in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan, Dec. 8, 2017. Toyota has made a key electric-vehicle component that uses smaller amounts …

Higher interest rates might be scaring stock investors, but they haven’t held back the stock market this year, according to a study by Credit Suisse Securities. “Year-to-date, if you invested only on dates when interest rates went up, your annualized return would be 16 percent,” said Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. …