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Goldman Sachs says bitcoin may rise about $500 more

Bitcoin’s latest leap higher brings the digital currency closer to a near-term top, Goldman Sachs’ chart analyst said. The digital currency is riding a “fifth wave” of an “impulsive” rally that could run as high as $4,827 in the short term, technical analyst Sheba Jafari said in a Sunday report …

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‘Gettin’ the Band Back Together’ to Open on Broadway Next Summer

Photo “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey in 2013. Credit T. Charles Erickson “Gettin’ the Band Back Together,” a new musical comedy about, well, a group of middle-aged friends getting their high school band back together, is to open on Broadway next summer, …

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Pandora appoints Roger Lynch as new CEO

Getty Images A banner for Pandora Media, the online-radio company, hangs in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Pandora is under new leadership, after its founder stepped aside as CEO for the second time earlier this summer. Roger Lynch, who has held leadership roles at companies like Sling TV …

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Herbalife shares tank by 6%, other ‘multilevel marketing firms’ falling as well

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg| Getty Images An employee carries a box of products for shipment to a truck at the Herbalife Los Angeles distribution center in Carson, Calif. Shares of Herbalife, USANA Health Sciences and Nu Skin Enterprises took a hit Monday on a report that China may be …

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Review: A Funky Rethinking of Schubert’s Winter Journey

Photo The tenor Ian Bostridge in “The Dark Mirror: Hans Zender’s Winterreise” at Lincoln Center. Credit Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times “The first and greatest of concept albums” is what the excellent English tenor Ian Bostridge calls Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” in his 2015 book, “Schubert’s Winter Journey: …

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AWS announces Amazon Macie, data security tool

Source: Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services and Infrastructure. Amazon Web Services announced a new security service called Amazon Macie at an event in New York on Monday. The tool appears to draws on technology from Harvest.ai, a San Diego start-up that Amazon reportedly acquired earlier …

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An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment

Reyes wrote her first letter to Arciniegas in 1969. In the early 1970s, the story goes, Arciniegas shared some of her writing with Gabriel García Márquez, who called Reyes to express his enthusiasm for it. Photo Credit James Nieves/The New York Times Some of us might take an encouraging call …

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Apple, Aetna hold meetings to bring Apple watch to millions more

Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook displays his personal Apple Watch to customers at an Apple Store on April 10, 2015 in Palo Alto, California. Apple and Aetna held a series of secret discussions last week to bring Apple’s health and fitness-tracking smartwatch to millions more people connected to Aetna, …

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Charts point to trouble for this “Amazon-proof” retailer: Technical analyst

Home Depot shares are up around 15 percent this year, but one top technician warns that the big-box retailer could be in trouble as it gears up to report earnings Tuesday before the bell. Fellow big retailers Target and Wal-Mart are also scheduled to report earnings this week, and the …

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Aswath Damodaran calls Tesla’s bond buyers ‘naive’

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Wall Street’s “dean of valuation,” Aswath Damodaran, says he is perplexed over why a cash-burning company like Tesla is choosing …

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