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When the financial crisis spun out of control
Legendary investment bank Lehman Brothers was on fire — and no one was coming to put it out. Bank of America refused to rescue the 158-year-old Wall Street firm without support from Uncle Sam.
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Goldman Sachs is in a record losing streak
David Solomon, the part-time DJ and future CEO, needs to change the tune at Goldman Sachs. The legendary investment bank is in a bit of a slump. Not only is Goldman Sachs (GS) the
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10 years after the financial crisis, have we learned anything?
When John Taylor starts remembering the years leading up to the financial crisis, his fury wells up all over again. As president of the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition, he warned Congress about the
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Investors pour $4 billion into Chinese ‘Amazon of services’
A Chinese app that does just about everything has found strong demand for its shares, bucking the trend of recent tech IPOs. Meituan Dianping raised $4.2 billion from investors after pricing the newly issued
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Young people support Nike’s bet on Kaepernick, poll shows
"What was Nike thinking?" President Donald Trump said on Twitter last week about Nike's new ad featuring Colin Kaepernick. A new poll may provide an answer. Nike's decision to make the former San Francisco
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How Apple got us to pay so much for the iPhone
The iPhone is getting more expensive, and Apple is betting faithful customers will barely blink an eye. Apple has slowly increased the average price of an iPhone since 2007, but with the $999 iPhone
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Two sisters die after undergoing female genital mutilation in Somalia
(CNN)Two sisters have died in Somalia from complications that arose after undergoing female genital mutilation, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, who campaigns against the procedure.Ten-year-old Aasiyo Abdi Warsame and her sister, Khadijo, 11, died
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UK schoolgirls have been pressured by peers to have FGM, campaigner says
London (CNN)Some schoolgirls in the United Kingdom have been pressured by their peers into undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM), according to FGM survivor and campaigner Leyla Hussein, Britain's Press Association reported.Hussein, who founded the
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Somalia to pursue first FGM prosecution after 10-year-old girl dies
(CNN)Somalia will prosecute a female genital mutilation (FGM) case for the first time in the country after a 10-year-old girl died from the procedure last week.Deeqa Dahir Nuur suffered complications two days after her
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The Kenyan teenagers tackling female genital mutilation with an app
(CNN)A group of Kenyan teenagers have created an app called i-Cut to help girls affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).The students, Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Mascrine Atieno and Ivy Akinyi, have named


