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The price of Bitcoin climbed to $8,000 on Friday. Meanwhile, Lightning Labs and the team behind the cryptocurrency litecoin completed the first cross-chain swap.

The release of the iPhone X and other factors could turn Apple into the first $1 trillion company in 2018. AAPL stocks continue to rise.

Thanks to convoluted laws, it's really hard to include bitcoin in your tax returns — which may be why many people say they will not report bitcoin ownership to the IRS.

Three fast facts about this skyrocketing cryptocurrency.

Snap Inc.'s stock price has plummeted after-hours as the company's poor earnings report was released showing it quadrupled its losses in Q3.

Here's how the company became the world's most powerful fintech player. But could bitcoin steal the throne?

Several new bitcoin forks are stirring up controversy, with a fork that could overthrow cryptocurrency mining giants.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, known as a shrewd tech investor, says bitcoin is a fraud.

Here are clear definitions for fintech lingo: utility tokens, Ethereum and all.

Hershey Co posted a higher-than-expected first-quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by price increases, and raised its full-year outlook, sending the candy maker's shares up more than 3 percent.

A new biotech corn developed by Dow AgroSciences could answer the prayers of U.S. farmers plagued by a fierce epidemic of super-weeds. Or it could trigger a flood of dangerous chemicals that may make weeds even more resistant and damage other important U.S. crops.

Kellogg Co cut its full-year outlook after a disappointing first-quarter performance, sending the cereal maker's shares down 5.5 percent and pressuring the packaged food sector overall.

Kellogg Co cut its full-year outlook on Monday, citing a weaker-than-expected first-quarter performance, and its shares fell 6.3 percent.

McDonald's Corp reported higher quarterly profit on Friday, paced by strong sales at established restaurants in the United States and Europe.

Nestle , the world's biggest food group, reported forecast-beating first-quarter organic sales growth of 7.2 percent on Friday as emerging market demand and price rises helped offset sluggish growth in the developed world.

Inside a dimly lit barn in northeast Indiana, where the air smells faintly of corn and earth, the future of China's food supply is squealing for attention.

Starbucks Corp wants to make its mainland China expansion a family affair.

HSBC is launching its first offshore yuan bond, which will be the first offshore yuan deal to be listed in London, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, reported on Wednesday.

Would you bulletproof a Kia? If you live in Brazil, the answer could very well be yes - to guard against robbers at stop signs in Sao Paulo or traffic jams in Brasilia.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday that a wider yuan trading band could help reduce global trade imbalances if it allows more play for market forces.

Freddie Mac , the No. 2 U.S. home funding company, said on Monday it sold $2 billion of reference bills at higher rates and weaker demand compared with the last week's sale of similar maturities.

Myanmar plans to increase rice exports by almost a fifth to 1 million tons in the current fiscal year (2012-2013), owing partly to international help in reviving its agriculture sector, state media said on Saturday.

The largest U.S. grain trade group on Thursday said Congress and commodities regulators should adopt its recommendations to protect customer funds and restore market confidence after the collapse of giant broker MF Global.

Barry Callebaut , the world's largest maker of chocolate products, warned that markets in Western Europe and North America remained fragile as it reported a slight dip in first-half profits.

Tax officials will not penalize farmers who could not properly file their taxes because they had accounts at bankrupt broker MF Global.

OTTAWA, March 26 - Canada's farm minister highlighted on Monday the global marketing reach of Swiss-based Glencore in the latest sign from Ottawa that it has little appetite for blocking the company's proposed takeover of grain handler Viterra.

Brazil plans to signal its growing concern about intense foreign competition hurting its industries by suggesting at the World Trade Organization that the ceiling for its import tariffs is too low, government sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

General Mills Inc posted a quarterly profit in line with Wall Street expectations and stood by its lowered full-year forecast as it faces higher costs for raw materials.

Glencore International will resume operations at the only copper refinery in the Philippines by June or July, six months after a fire halted its operations, a company official told Reuters on Tuesday.