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January: leading indicators index

Kamil Krzaczynski | Reuters A shopper makes a purchase at the J.C. Penney department store in North Riverside, Illinois. A key index tracking 10 economic metrics rose for the third straight month in January. The composite indicator increased 1 percent in January from the prior month, besting expectations of 0.7 …

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Bitcoin drops below $10,000 again, hitting lowest in a week

Bitcoin is struggling to stay above $10,000. The cryptocurrency fell below the psychologically key level Thursday, failing the latest attempt to recover from a sharp sell-off in the last several weeks. Bitcoin dropped about 5 percent to a low of $9,878.72, its lowest level in a week, according to CoinDesk’s …

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How to help the 16 percent of workers without unemployment insurance

Dorothea Lange | Fotosearch | Getty Images A unemployed man stands against a vacant store with ‘To Let’ and ‘To Lease’ posters in the window, in a photograph by Dorothea Lange, on ‘Skid Row’, Howard Street, San Francisco, February 1937. Many of the proposals try to make the current system …

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