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Stockpickers are turning to names like American Express, Oracle, and Dialog Semiconductor to bolster portfolios as the market hits new highs.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Fintech Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. UK digital-only bank Starling has obtained a restricted banking license allowing it to test it...

Charles de Vaulx and Chuck de Lardemelle of International Value Advisers comb the world for bargains.

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Despite Brexit fears, Post Office survey finds visitors to Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain will spend less on meals and drinks than they would have in 2014 If you'd given up on the prospect of a cheap European holiday follo...

The warm summer weather may finally be heating up the slumping casino industry in Macau. After gaming revenue fell to a near five year low in June, a strong performance in the first 10 days of July has analysts projectin...

Writers at the respected Consumer Reports were enthusiastic fans of the Tesla Model S electric car they bought and drove for more than a year, using enthusiastic language rarely seen in its sober reviews. But as reliabil...

There's been some good news out of Libya recently. In the beginning of July, Libya's two rival oil companies — the National Oil Corp. based in the western city in Tripoli and its eastern counterpart, which sits in ...

Chinese technology company Baidu today announced the launch of a few new services within its Baidu Open Cloud public cloud infrastructure portfolio. Baidu TianSuan (Smart Big Data) lets customers “collect, store, proce...

Recruiting methods and cultures of tech companies also to blame for lack of diversity, people say.          

Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Soft drinks have been making a hard landing. Last year marked the eleventh consecutive year of declining carbonated soft drink sales in the United States, while soda consumption fell to a 30-...

Aaron Wolf/Flickr Success isn't always in our stars. Poor timing, terrible luck, and other disappointing circumstances sometimes seems to conspire to deprive us of victory. Most of the time, though, we're our own worst e...

Given how political events in the U.K. have developed in recent weeks we should perhaps have known that the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, would not turn out to be the woman people thought her to be. While there was a ...

Thomson Reuters Bayer is not letting Monsanto off the hook. The German company on Thursday said it had boosted its all-cash offer for Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, to $125 per share from $122. That's about $55 billion ...

American Cities With Booming (and Shrinking) Incomes July 11, 2016 by Evan Comen Source: Thinkstock The American workforce earned 2.9% more income in 2014 than in the previous year.          

Royal Dutch Shell's makeover could lift the shares more than 20% in a year--even without a rise in oil prices. Plus, a juicy 6.6% yield.

Reuters/Enrique de la Osa Sofía's living room is covered in clothes. Stacks of t-shirts and shorts line a faded plaid couch. Dresses are strewn across the counter, and an armchair cradles a small mountain of shoes. You ...

Citigroup is "especially bullish" on commodities in 2017, the bank says.          

PWC says drones could save businesses 7 million worldwide This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. AT&T suggested in a blog post that it may co...

BII This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Payments Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Mastercard expanded Masterpass, its digital payment service, so that consumers can now mak...

Shares could soar if the Anthem merger is approved. Analysts still see 30% upside if Cigna goes it alone.

Hipsters rule in New York's trendiest borough, but parent-friendly hotels also abound. Checking into Williamsburg's McCarren Hotel & Pool.