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It looks like Apple is bringing back home nearly all of its $250 billion foreign cash

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, gestures during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, June 13, 2016. Apple just announced on Wednesday it will bring back hundreds of billions of dollars from overseas to fund investment in the U.S. …

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Bull market may find it hard to keep this momentum

We don’t know if we’ve just seen the moment of maximum upside energy for this bull market. But even if we have, history says there’s likely a fair slug of further gains left in this run before it finally ends. A market’s “momentum peak” is measured by various tools that …

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The bitcoin plunge is crushing crypto-craze stocks

Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images A bitcoin embassy is seen in an underpass in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Easy come, easy go. The stocks that rode bitcoin’s rise higher are now plunging as the digital currency falters. The price of bitcoin is down nearly 50 percent in the past month …

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IRS steps up tax enforcement for cryptocurrencies

Anthony Wallace | AFP | Getty Images A woman touches an ATM machine for digital currency Bitcoin in Hong Kong on December 18, 2017. Back in 2013, Tyson Cross, a tax attorney in Reno, Nevada, helped a few dozen of his clients report cryptocurrencies on their tax returns. Today, that …

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Apple is breaking out — here’s how to trade it

An Apple a day keeps the bears at bay. Shares of the tech giant hit a new high on Tuesday. Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com is betting that Apple will soar to even more record highs following its earnings report in two weeks. “Apple is contained in this beautiful 2017 uptrend …

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Netflix will beat subscriber expectations, GBH Insights predicts

Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gives a keynote address, January 6, 2016 at the CES 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Netflix shares will thrive as the streaming giant builds on its original content and its international expansion, according to one Wall …

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21 states sue to keep net neutrality as Senate Democrats reach 50 votes

Getty Images Demonstrators, supporting net neutrality, protest a plan by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal restrictions on internet service providers during a protest outside a Verizon store on December 7, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. A group of 21 U.S. state attorneys general filed suit to challenge the Federal …

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Koreas to form unified ice hockey team, march together in Winter Olympics

Handout: South Korean Ministry of Unification Officials from South Korea and North Korea meet to discuss the North’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The two Koreas agreed during rare talks on Wednesday to form a combined women’s ice hockey team to take part in next month’s Winter Olympics in …

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YouTube to remove smaller video channels to protect advertisers

Leon Bennett | Getty Images Logan Paul attends a film premiere in Culver City, California, on October 18, 2017 YouTube is aiming to prevent those who create undesirable or spam videos to make money from advertising and reward creators who make good content. “While this new approach will affect a …

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House Republicans eye a budget funding extension, but a ‘Dreamer’ deal won’t be a part of it

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Demonstrators hold signs during a protest in front of the White House after the Trump administration today scrapped the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children, …

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