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Aug 12, 2015 1 minute read

Is China Using the Yuan to Fund a Currency War?

China’s yuan led the biggest two-day selloff in Asian currencies since 1997, fuelling concern that financial-market volatility will curb global economic growth and a possible "currency war" if other countries devalue exchange rates to stay competitive in global export markets.

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Jul 29, 2015 1 minute read

NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone -- the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet -- of a G2-type star, like our sun. The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030. This video shows an artist's concept that depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b.

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Jul 29, 2015 1 minute read

Organs-on-a-Chip Shake Up Drug Testing

Our latest BWest series: Bioengineering the Senses. We take a closer look at tech on the frontiers of medical science. Today, we take a look at organs-on-a-chip under development at the Wyss Institute of Harvard University. Could this device speed up and improve the way new medicines are developed?

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Jul 8, 2015 1 minute read

NYSE Halted Trading in All Securities: What We Know

The New York Stock Exchange halted trading in all securities as it addressed a computer malfunction and said it canceled all outstanding orders. Bloomberg's Michael Regan reports on “Bloomberg Markets.”

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Jun 28, 2015 13 minute read

The Truth About the Currency Wars

Here's the truth about the currency wars and its not what you think. Read this to learn why every one has the currency war meme wrong and what its really all about.

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Jun 23, 2015 1 minute read

Japan Shorts Surge to Highest Since 2008

Short-selling accounted for 38.3 percent of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the highest ratio since the bourse began keeping daily records more than six years ago. Bloomberg's David Ingles has more on "First Up."

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Jun 23, 2015 1 minute read

Has China’s Steel Bubble Burst?

In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Brendan Greeley displays the decline of crude steel output in China.

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Jun 23, 2015 1 minute read

Why Texas Wants Its Gold Stored in Manhattan Back

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law last week to build a depository for its 5,600 bars of gold and, as he said in a statement, “repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York.” Watch the video to learn more.

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May 30, 2015 1 minute read

Mysterious sinkholes spreading across Russia's Urals

Subterranean Soviet missile stations - or tunnels to the center of the earth? A whole host of theories have emerged after a large hole appeared near Russia's Urals mountains. An emergency situation committee has yet to say what caused it, or how they're responding. Meanwhile mysterious sinkholes have also appeared elsewhere in the region.

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