Back in 1999, Polish artist Artur Å»mijewski shot a controversial video of naked men and women playing tag in a gas chamber. The piece was not displayed until 2015 in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, called âPolandâIsraelâGermanyâThe experience of Auschwitz.
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Offering bitcoin futures was a response to user demand and a reflection of the belief that digital currencies will grow worldwide in the decades to come, said Chris Concannon, president of Cboe Global Markets Inc., one of three venues that announced it will soon start offering the products. âWe are big
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The New York Times, seeking to amass more paid subscriptions in an era of non-stop, must-read headlines, is halving the number of articles available for free each month. Starting Friday, most non-subscribers will only be able to read five articles rather than 10 before they're asked to start paying. It's the
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At the session level, shares of BB&T Corporation(NYSE:BBT) moved -0.16% from the open. The most recent bid on the stock was registered at $49.42. Further, company shares have been seen trading -0.98% off of the 52 week high and 20.04% away from the 52 week low. Narrowing in further, the stock
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Agustin Carstens, who assumes leadership Friday of the Bank for International Settlements, will make digital currencies and financial technology two of his top priorities. The 59-year-old, who previously served as governor for Mexico's central bank and also as the nation's finance minister, termed
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Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban says bitcoin futures trading on major exchanges will potentially have a positive impact on the cryptocurrency. Mark Cuban. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg. CME Group Inc., the world's biggest exchange owner, and smaller venue Cboe Global
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As the price of Bitcoin zooms to its highest ever heights, the cryptocurrency's most valuable startup is preparing for adulthood. Coinbase, one of the world's first Bitcoin brokers, last appraised by investors at $1.6 billion in August, is adding a president and chief operations officer to its ranks. The so-called
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Bloomberg's Yousef Gamal El-Din reports on OPEC extending production cuts through the end of 2018. On the surface, Thursday's OPEC meeting was a no-drama success. The group of oil nations agreed to extend year-old production cuts through the end of 2018 to help boost prices, no small
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Norfolk real estate investment firm buys 25 apartments for $1.8 billion. By Kimberly … The real estate investment firm and management company bought a portfolio of 9,677 units from Lone Star Funds, a Dallas-based private equity company. … Harbor Group now has $7.1 billion invested in properties.
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Two men accused in schemes to use fake emails targeting real estate transactions in several states have indicated they will plead guilty later this month. Ismail Shitu, a native of Ghana living Brookline, and Akintayo Bolorunduro, a Nigerian living in Atlanta, are set to plead Dec. 20 in U.S. District Court to
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Charlie Shoop and Caleb Marten of KeyBank structured the Freddie Mac loans, which included 10-year interest-only terms and were used to refinance an existing bridge loan provided by KeyBank. The funds were secured on behalf of the borrower, healthcare and seniors housing investment firm Kayne
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Ctrip.Com International logo Traders bought shares of Ctrip.Com International Ltd (NASDAQ:CTRP) on weakness during trading hours on Wednesday. $63.14 million flowed into the stock on the tick-up and $23.76 million flowed out of the stock on the tick-down, for a money net flow of $39.38 million into
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Over the past week we got an usual number of questions, about a piece I wrote last week. The article focused on Canadian real estate cycles, and was based on some things I said as a guest of the Toronto Association of Business and Economics (TABE) and Ryerson CUR. Instead of responding to them
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Two Miami banks are merging to form the third-largest bank based in the state of Florida. On Friday, City National Bank announced it was purchasing TotalBank for $528 million from Banco Santander of Spain. Both banks are stalwarts of the South Florida banking community, with City National operating
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… syndicates with members based in the U.K. For example, lenders to Volkswagen Financial Services AG's 2.5 billion-euro ($3 billion) line include London-based entities for Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., as well as the U.K. units of the major British banks, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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Historically, December is a good month for the S&P 500, but there are also sector-level opportunities for investors to consider in the final month of the year. Data suggest the iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate Index Fund (NYSEArca: IYR) is one of those ideas. Although it is widely expected that the
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RBS has announced that it's closing a total of 259 branches across its network â including 62 Royal Bank of Scotland branches and 179 NatWest â following a review of how people use its banking services. The closures will result in around 680 redundancies, which it hopes will be largely achieved on a
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Qualcomm Inc.'s dawdling over its offer for NXP Semiconductors NV has only made the chipmaker more susceptible to advances from Broadcom Ltd. Broadcom is contemplating a proxy fight at Qualcomm after the latter company rejected its $70-a-share takeover proposal, betting it can harness
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BUSINESS WIRE)–Nationwide Title Clearing (NTC), the leading post-closing services provider for the nation's largest financial institutions, investors and servicers, is proud to announce that Jimmy Walby, NTC's Deputy Chief Operations Officer, was recognized in the December issue of HousingWire as
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ANKARA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Turkey's BDDK banking regulator approved a banking licence for a Turkish branch of the Bank of China, the regulator's head was cited as saying by state-run Anadolu news agency on Friday. The Bank of China Turkey AS will be able to start operations as of Saturday, BDDK
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