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Electric vehicle and energy company Tesla said Monday it has invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin and will soon accept the cryptocurrency as payment for some of its products....Read More

Fox News Media announced Friday it canceled its highly rated show hosted by Lou Dobbs one day after he was named in a $2.7 billion defamation suit filed by voting technology company Smartmatic....Read More

Investing app Robinhood on Friday lifted restrictions for trading all stocks, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment, after a surge in transactions last week led to a volatile market revolt....Read More

The U.S. economy added 49,000 jobs during the month of January, the Labor Department said Friday in its monthly report, missing most experts’ expectations....Read More

The Canadian government on Thursday extended a ban on cruise ships and some smaller pleasure craft in its waters in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through February 2022....Read More

The S&P 500 climbed more than 1% Thursday as markets rose for the fourth-straight day while continuing to rebound from losses last week....Read More

About 780,000 workers in the United States have filed for new jobless benefits, the Labor Department said Thursday in its weekly unemployment snapshot....Read More

Britain’s central bank on Thursday lowered its economic expectations for 2021, but said there will be rapid growth — particularly later in the year as the COVID-19 vaccine is given to more people....Read More

The S&P 500 turned in its third consecutive day of gains Wednesday while the Nasdaq Composite fell as Amazon stock dropped after CEO Jeff Bezos announced he would step down....Read More

A plan by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch two Starlink satellite missions from Florida on Thursday fell through, and the company now plans to launch Falcon 9 rockets twice in two days....Read More