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Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero

Bitcoin’s meteoric rise last year had many observers calling it one of the biggest speculative manias in history. The cryptocurrency’s 2018 crash may help cement its place in the bubble record books. Down about 70 percent from its December high after sliding for a fourth straight day on Friday, Bitcoin is getting ever-closer to matching the Nasdaq Composite Index’s 78 percent peak-to-trough plunge after the U.S. dot-com bubble burst. …read more […]

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Want to start an Amazon delivery business? What to know

Amazon wants you to deliver its packages for them. The online retailer launched a new program this week that helps people in the United States start their own businesses delivering Amazon packages. The move gives Amazon another way to ship its packages to shoppers besides relying on UPS, FedEx and other package delivery services. …read more […]

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Comcast says services being restored after outage

Comcast Corp said on Friday services interrupted by two separate incidents of fiber cuts at its network providers were being restored. Comcast said the two network providers were CenturyLink Inc and Zayo Group Holdings Inc. “While the CenturyLink network continues to operate normally, on June 29, we experienced two isolated fiber cuts in North Carolina affecting some customers that by themselves did not cause the issues experienced by other providers,” CenturyLink said. …read more […]

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Larry Kudlow, Trump’s Top Economic Adviser, Says the Deficit Is Falling. It Is Not.

Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s top economic adviser, said on the Fox Business Network Friday morning that the federal budget deficit is falling “rapidly.” In response to a Maria Bartiromo question about the outlook for economic growth and forecasters who say we might be heading for a recession in 2020, the director of the White House National Economic Council said tax revenues have been boosted enormously. …read more […]

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U.S. tells ETP to restore land around Rover pipe in Ohio, Michigan

U.S. federal energy regulators have told Energy Transfer Partners LP to finish restoring the land around parts of its Rover natural gas pipeline in Ohio and Michigan before allowing the company to put more segments in service. FERC said it authorized ETP to put Rover’s Vector delivery meter station in Michigan, Defiance compressor station in Ohio and Market Segment between Ohio and Michigan into service on May 1 even though the company had not completed restoration of the grounds around those facilities. …read more […]

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Oil jumps as market anticipates U.S. sanctions on Iran

Oil prices increased Friday as U.S. sanctions against Iran threatened to remove a substantial volume of crude oil from world markets at a time of rising global demand. U.S. crude rose 69 cents a barrel to $74.14 by 10:49 a.m. EDT [1449 GMT], and earlier touched $74.37, the highest since Nov. 26, 2014. There’s a risk that supplies from Iran could be cut further as there’s pressure on other countries to join the United States in sanctions, he said. …read more […]