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Brent crude oil hits 2½-year high on Forties pipeline outage

Brent crude oil prices spiked to the highest level in 2½ years on Monday on news that a major pipeline in the U.K.’s North Sea will shut down for repairs. The Forties pipeline system will close for several weeks while its operator, INEOS, repairs a crack in a pipe discovered …

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Bitcoin futures launch could be bad for bitcoin’s price, tech analyst Gene Munster says

The launch of bitcoin futures could “have a material negative impact on the price of bitcoin,” a well-respected technology analyst said Monday. With the futures, “investors will have an easier time betting against bitcoin,” and “investors could move towards trading futures contracts and out of bitcoin itself,” Gene Munster, co-founder …

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Al Franken ‘was clearly drummed out’ without due process

Nicole Craine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Roy Moore, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Alabama, smiles as he speaks during a campaign rally in Fairhope, Alabama, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy is drawing a distinction between sexual assault accusations against conservative Roy Moore and liberal …

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