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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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