Cryptocurrencies rise as investors brace for election results, bitcoin briefly tops $70,000

Cryptocurrencies were higher as investors looked forward to results from the U.S. presidential election.

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Bitcoin's post-election boom

Presented by LGBT Tech — {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story Bitcoin's boost for Trump Bitcoin has blasted through a series of record highs since President-elect Trump’s ...
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What investors can learn from the S&P's performance after presidential elections since 1928

The S&P 500's performance is all over the map in the 12 months following previous presidential elections. The lesson for investors: don't do much.
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What investors can learn from the S&P's performance after presidential elections since 1928

Investors wondering if the presidential election may usher in a bad or good time for the stock market won’t find any easy answers looking at the past.
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A landmark climate change case opens at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top United Nations court has taken up the largest case in its history, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change
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New Yorkers braced for congestion charge

The city’s drivers are facing the spectre of paying to use the roads of lower Manhattan
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Romania to hold presidential runoff as court certifies shock first-round result

Moscow-friendly ultranationalist Cǎlin Georgescu to face Elena Lasconi in vote that could upend Ukraine policy. Romania’s constitutional court has validated the shock first-round result in the ...
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Were Hunter Biden’s Prosecutions a Result of Political Pressure? A Look at the Facts

The gun case federal prosecutors brought against Hunter Biden was relatively rare, but the tax charges he pleaded guilty to may have been less unusual.
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MicroStrategy has kept buying bitcoin as prices have pulled back

The software company has spent nearly $7 billion buying bitcoin in the past two weeks as prices have pulled back.
MarketWatch - 23h
Investors call for reform of Scotland’s ‘stamp duty’ to boost investment

Asset managers call for removal of ‘disincentive’ to property spending north of the border
Financial Times - 12h
Bitcoin buyer sues council over £600m 'lost in tip'

James Howells believes the hard drive is now worth about £600m since the recent Bitcoin surge.
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Cryptocurrencies rise as investors brace for election results, bitcoin briefly tops $70,000

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Bitcoin's post-election boom

What investors can learn from the S&P's performance after presidential elections since 1928

What investors can learn from the S&P's performance after presidential elections since 1928

A landmark climate change case opens at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

New Yorkers braced for congestion charge

Romania to hold presidential runoff as court certifies shock first-round result

Were Hunter Biden’s Prosecutions a Result of Political Pressure? A Look at the Facts

MicroStrategy has kept buying bitcoin as prices have pulled back

Investors call for reform of Scotland’s ‘stamp duty’ to boost investment

Bitcoin buyer sues council over £600m 'lost in tip'

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