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Not much upside left for the market here, but these ‘secular growth’ stocks should boom

Robert Daemmrich Photography | Corbis | Getty Images A worker at an Amazon shipping center in Schertz, Texas. With the S&P 500 not far from the firm’s 2018 year-end target, Goldman Sachs says there is still an investment strategy that can outperform. The firm recommended companies with strong prospects for …

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Stormy Daniels interview to air on ‘60 Minutes’ this month

Gabe Ginsberg | Getty Images Stormy Daniels attends the 2018 Adult Video News Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 27, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The CBS News program “60 Minutes” has set a date of March 25 for when it will show a recently conducted …

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J&J gets a $2.1 billion bid for LifeScan diabetes business

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A job seeker talks to a Johnson & Johnson job recruiter at a career fair in Washington, D.C. Johnson & Johnson said Friday it has received an offer of about $2.1 billion for its LifeScan business from private equity firm Platinum Equity. The …

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Britain says likely that Russia’s Putin made decision for nerve agent attack

Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Military personnel wearing protective suits remove a police car and other vehicles from a public car park as they continue investigations into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal on March 11, 2018 in Salisbury, England. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Friday that it was overwhelmingly …

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Pentagon confirms hack attempt against Defense Department credit card holders

The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed that there was a hacking attempt this past weekend against an online financial services portal that Citigroup manages for Defense Department credit card holders. The confirmation comes a day after Citigroup told CNBC that a “malicious actor” attempted to gain access to information for Pentagon-linked …

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Steve Wynn may sell his stake in Wynn Resorts

Jessica Rinaldi | The Boston Globe | Getty Images Steve Wynn shows off the plans for a planned casino during a press conference on March 15, 2016. Wynn Resorts Ltd’s former chief executive, Steve Wynn, may elect to sell all or a portion of his stake in the company, according …

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Deutsche Bank sees delays in cost cut plans in 2018

Thomas Lohnes | Getty Images John Cryan, CEO of Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank on Friday warned on costs for 2018, citing delays in some business disposals, even as Germany’s largest lender said it expects revenues to rise for the full year. “We currently do not expect the planned 900 million …

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Ghana is ‘about to have an oil boom’

Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd R) and Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo in Accra, Ghana, on November 30, 2017. Ghana, the west African nation known as one of the world’s largest cocoa producers, is on course for skyrocketing economic growth this year thanks to …

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Potential trade tiffs may have ‘muted’ effects on leisure travel

FG | Bauer-Griffin | Getty Images A Hawaiian Airbus A330 at the Los angeles International Airport on July 30, 2017. Technology has made traveling more specialized, and airlines need to develop to cater to a wider range of customers, the CEO of the ninth largest commercial airline in the U.S. …

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bitcoin’s fall may be due to tax selling

During last year’s rise in bitcoin, some first-time investors had forgotten about a downside of making money off of trades: Taxes. Millennial investors are waking up to a looming April tax filing date, which some say may be contributing to the digital currency’s sell-off below $8,000. “For younger people who …

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