High Global Business Valuations is pleased to announce the launch of the Business Valuation Dossier daily newspaper available at www.ValuationsInternational.com. Business Valuation Dossier will provide a variety of articles and information on topics including business valuations & appraisals, SBA financing news and developments, corporate finance, merger & acquisition deals and pricing, and the economy and economic statistics.  The publication will be published daily online and is available at no charge to readers.  In addition to articles and commentaries from Highland Global, content for the Business Valuation Dossier will be sourced from a variety of outlets and is aimed a providing current and relevant information of interest to small business owners, business advisors,  and finance, economics, and lending professionals. 

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• Vitaminwater is offering $100,000 if you can stay off smartphones for a year
  cnbc.com - Sadly, the deck seems stacked against millennials. Over 92 percent of them own a smartphone, according to the latest Pew Research Center data. Even overwhelming majorities of Gen-Xers and baby boomer…
• Billionaire Richard Branson: The 9-to-5 workday and 5-day work week will die off
  cnbc.com - "On the face of it, this sounds like bad news for people," Branson admits (and Elon Musk certainly thinks so). But unemployment rates will about the same in 20 years, even if the kind of jobs have ch…
• United flight attendants protest staffing cuts, picket outside airports
  cnbc.com - Hundreds of United Airlines flight attendants on Thursday protested outside several airports against staffing cuts, the first demonstrations by the airline's largest labor group in more than two year…
• Office of Veterans Business Development | Resources | The U.S. Small Business Administration
  sba.gov - The Veterans Business Outreach Center (VBOC) Program is designed to provide entrepreneurial development services such as business training, counseling and resource partner referrals to transitioning …Tweeted by @SBAgov https://twitter.com/SBAgov/status/1073217304022921216
• Jeff Smith's Starboard builds 9.8% stake in Magellan Health
  cnbc.com - Activist hedge fund Starboard Value has built a 9.8 percent stake in small health insurer and pharmacy-benefits manager Magellan Health. Though Starboard partners and founders Jeffrey Smith and Mark …
• Jim Chanos reveals bets against Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts amid US-China trade war
  cnbc.com - Famed short-seller Jim Chanos is going after American casino operators Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts as the U.S.-China trade war continues. "One area I'm scratching my head about is the Macao casi…
• Trump says 'GM is not going to be treated well'
  cnbc.com - President Donald Trump criticized job cuts at General Motors as well as CEO Mary Barra again Thursday, saying the U.S. automaker isn't "going to be treated well." "I don't like what she did, it was n…
• Trump administration takes aim at Russia and China in new Africa strategy
  cnbc.com - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to adjust its economic and political strategy in Africa in order to counter Russian and Chinese "predatory practices" across the continent. National securi…
• Online brokerage stocks could be signaling trouble ahead for broader market, economy
  cnbc.com - A sell-off in online brokerage stocks such as Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade could be signaling trouble is ahead for the market and the economy. At the very least, they are indicating the Federal R…
• Legendary trader Andy Hall bets oil prices are going to rebound
  cnbc.com - Legendary oil trader Andy Hall says oil prices have likely hit a bottom after plunging more than 30 percent over the last two months. "I think with prices hovering around or a little over $50 a barre…
• YouTube removed 1.6 million channels last quarter, mostly for being 'spam or scams'
  cnbc.com - Google's battle against inappropriate content on its video platform rages on. YouTube removed 7.85 million videos and 1.67 million channels between July and September, according to its latest YouTube…
• Tesla's head of digital product, Parag Vaish, is leaving to start a company at Google's incubator
  cnbc.com - Tesla's head of digital product, Parag Vaish, has resigned from the company and will be joining Google's internal incubator called Area 120. Vaish started at Tesla last year and managed a team of mor…
• Cramer: Tesla may now feel 'vindicated' in regards to Elon Musk's infamous $420 tweet
  cnbc.com - Telsa may be feeling better about CEO Elon Musk's now-infamous August tweet on considering taking the electric car maker private, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday. "We're now seeing price targets that…
• YouTube's 2018 recap becomes most disliked video ever posted on the site
  cnbc.com - Marques Brownlee, one of the YouTubers featured in the video, also weighed in. He argued the "Rewind" series had become increasingly convoluted and that the problem is that the platform is "trying to…
• Tim Cook kept his promise with Apple's new campuses — he didn't run a contest like Amazon's
  cnbc.com - Apple CEO Tim Cook kept his promise in placing Apple's newest campuses — spanning several states and including a new $1 billion facility in Austin, Texas — and he didn't run a contest like Amazon's. …
• PayPal could get big boost from expanded Facebook partnership, analyst says: 'They need each other'
  cnbc.com - Facebook could bring PayPal millions of new users if the two expand their partnership, according to MoffettNathanson. The social media giant and the online payment service — "a match made in heaven" …
• Trump again claims Mexico will pay for his wall. Democrats say it means Congress doesn't need to
  cnbc.com - Even as he threatens to shut down the government unless Congress funds his proposed border wall, President Donald Trump revived his claim that Mexico would pay for the barrier. In a tweet Thursday, t…
• Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina pleads guilty to conspiring to influence US politics through NRA
  cnbc.com - Russian citizen Maria Butina pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to conspiring to influence U.S. politics through her connections to the National Rifle Association. Butina's admission on the sin…
• Trump faces pushback after saying he may intervene in arrest of Huawei executive
  cnbc.com - Some analysts said the Huawei incident could cloud the U.S.-China tariff talks. Beijing has been infuriated by the developments and has protested the arrest. China "has made clear its stern position …
• After winning leadership vote, Theresa May heads to Brussels to debate Irish border
  cnbc.com - The Irish border issue has been around since Brexit talks first started 18 months ago, but it's only recently emerged as a widely recognized crucial element of negotiations. Still, the E.U. is unlike…
• Japan opens the door to more foreigners. That may not solve its labor woes
  cnbc.com - Language problems and diverging social customs are why many Japanese nationals and businesses are reluctant to accept foreign workers on a permanent basis, echoed Sayuri Shirai, professor at Keio Uni…
• UK Prime Minister Theresa May wins confidence vote, but faces uphill battle to pass Brexit deal
  cnbc.com - The vote was announced Wednesday after 48 Conservative members of parliament (MPs) submitted letters of no-confidence in May's leadership to the chairman of a prominent group of Conservative backbenc…
• Sen. Jeff Flake throws shade at Trump in farewell address, warns of dangers to democracy
  cnbc.com - Retiring GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, in a farewell speech to the Senate, warned on Thursday of the dangers facing democracies. "Let us recognize from this place here today that the shadow of tyranny is once…
• Trump will need Mitch McConnell more than ever as Democrats take control of the House
  cnbc.com - Mueller's Russia probe and separate investigations have also closed in around Trump associates. The president's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison f…
• Billionaire George Soros may not back a candidate during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary
  cnbc.com - Billionaire and liberal philanthropist George Soros has been telling his aides that he may not back a candidate during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as the potentially large field sorts it…