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Some US investors of Chinese tech behemoth Bytedance are mulling over whether or not to buy control of subsidiary company TikTok, according to a report from The Information.The small group of investors is discussing such a move with ByteDance's top officials, per the report. The US investors involved in the deal could include General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, the latter of which has backed the likes of Apple, Google, and PayPal. Per a previous Information report, Bytedance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming has said he wouldn't be opposed to such a sale.The report comes as TikTok's parent company continues to...

American investors diversified away from the US at the fastest rate in 10 years, even as foreign buyers stepped up their purchases of US assets, data released on Monday suggested. US investors bought $146bn of overseas bonds and equities in the past 12 months more than at any time since 1994. But despite anxieties about the still-growing US current account deficit, overseas investors poured a net $71.2bn into US assets, up from a revised $55.8bn in May, according to the Treasury. * * * The dollar rose to $1.236 from $1.239 against the euro on the news. The US needs...