The Market

Bitcoin prices were carving out fresh records Wednesday but where the cryptocurrency heads from here is an open question. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, +5.39% hit a record high at $ 51,735.38 earlier in the day, according to CoinDesk and predictions see the world’s No. 1 crypto doubling before year-end, while …

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Looks like Michael B. Jordan is invested in his relationship. While many people lavished their lovers with traditional Valentine’s Day gifts like jewelry and chocolates over the weekend, the “Black Panther” star took things to the next level. Rather than simply buying his girlfriend, Lori Harvey, a leather bag or …

Good news for Americans who are forced to skip their mortgage payments amid rising unemployment. The White House is extending the foreclosure moratorium until the end of June for homeowners with mortgages backed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Agriculture. Homeowners …

BP and Chevron have made a landmark expansion into geothermal energy on Tuesday, betting on a new technology that could prove to be the world’s first scalable clean energy derived from a constant source: the natural heat of the earth,  The two major oil companies have headlined a $ 40 …

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Nissan Motor Co. on Sunday said it was not in talks with Apple Inc. to develop an autonomous electric car, Reuters reported. Earlier, the Financial Times reported Apple had initiated brief, low-level talks that ended over the Japanese auto maker’s reluctance to manufacture Apple-branded cars. “We are not in talks …

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that it’s too soon to ease mask mandates and social-distancing rules, and warned the more contagious strain of COVID-19 first identified in the U.K. could be the dominant U.S. strain by the end of March. In an interview …