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Bitcoin hits $100,000 and UK shares boom in 2024 – but there’s bad news for savers | Personal Finance | Finance

Wall Street, savings rates, the gold price and bond yields all rose in 2024, while cryptocurrency Bitcoin flew to the moon. Some individual stocks did brilliantly, with US chip maker Nvidia skyrocketing 238 percent. UK-listed aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce almost matched that by growing a blockbuster 225 percent, making it …

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Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $78M in U.S. opioid settlement with health insurers, company benefit plans

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that its work with drug companies helped fuel an epidemic of opioid addiction. The settlement, disclosed in documents filed on Friday in federal …

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Hershey sued, accused of ‘deception’ in its Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins

Hershey’s delivers candy to Senate during impeachment A Florida woman is suing Hershey after she says she was deceived by the chocolate brand’s packaging of its holiday-themed items.  In a proposed federal class action lawsuit filed on Thursday, December 28, plaintiff Cynthia Kelly of Hillsborough County, Florida stated she was …

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Brexit victory with UK economy tipped to outpace Germany’s as eurozone falters | Politics | News

Britain’s economy is poised to outstrip that of Germany in the coming years, with European countries hampered by the sluggish eurozone, experts have predicted. Economists at investment bank UBS believe Europe’s economic powerhorse will see modest growth of 0.5 percent in 2024, and 0.8 percent the year after. By contrast, …

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Millennials feel nothing short of £2 million is a life-changing amount of money | Personal Finance | Finance

Millennials reckon nothing short of £2million is a “life-changing” amount of money, according to research. A poll of 2,000 adults found the average person needs to win £1,470,000 on the lottery, to consider it enough to alter their way of life. But millennials would want the most to feel settled …

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Judge certifies Johnson & Johnson shareholder class action over talc disclosures

Check out whats clicking on FoxBusiness.com A federal judge said Johnson & Johnson shareholders may pursue as a class action their lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulently concealing how its talc products were contaminated by cancer-causing asbestos. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi in Trenton, New Jersey, on Friday allowed shareholders …

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