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Business Insider Most Americans are about to see a bump in their pay, even if their employer didn’t give them a raise. The Internal Revenue Service released new guidelines on how much employers should withhold […]

Bloomberg Bitcoin tumbled below $8,500 as a miserable 2018 continued for cryptocurrencies, with investors confronting a mounting list of concerns about the future of the industry. The largest digital currency dropped about 10 percent to […]

Bloomberg For cryptocurrency investors, January is turning into a month to rue. Digital coins have mostly slid this week, with Bitcoin heading for its worst monthly decline since February 2014, as U.S. regulators ramp up […]

The NY Times LONDON — A decade after the world descended into a devastating economic crisis, a key marker of revival has finally been achieved. Every major economy on earth is expanding at once, a […]

The Street The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all finished at new records on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared by 322 points on Wednesday, Jan. 17, finishing above 26,000 and setting a new […]

Bloomberg January’s cryptocurrency selloff got fresh impetus on Tuesday when bitcoin slumped, plunging as much as 20 percent as the prospect of regulatory crackdowns appeared to spread. The largest digital coin fell 14 percent to […]

CNBC U.S. equities rose to record highs on Tuesday as investors remained optimistic about the market heading into the corporate earnings season. The S&P 500 hit a fresh all-time high, rising 0.1 percent to close at 2,751.29. […]

Bloomberg Economists descended on Philadelphia last weekend for an annual conference that’s basically wonk utopia. Central bankers, Nobel laureates and the profession’s elite professors debated the merits of math-heavy models in packed conference rooms while Ph.D. job market […]

Bloomberg It always looks inevitable in retrospect. Why wouldn’t U.S. stocks rally, surging to the biggest weekly gain in a year, amid earnings euphoria like this? With no hint of fatigue, the S&P 500 Index […]

Business Insider Once upon a time, a startup worth $1 billion or more was considered to be a rare, almost mythical thing — a unicorn. But in the past few years, unicorns have become far […]