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Bitcoin and major digital currencies were trading higher Friday, putting most coins on track for back-to-back winning weeks. After trending lower for most of the week, bitcoin the world’s largest digital currency has jumped out of its recent short-term trading range, making a two-week high at $6,776.75. In Friday trading, a single bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.05%…

Watch: We test the new GoPro Hero7 Black Driving full speed into a turn at the Sonoma Raceway, GoPro VP Rick Loughery flipped his go kart and crashed spectacularly, grinding to an upside-down halt on the side of the track. His co-workers let out a chorus of “ooohs!” before one quietly said what they all…

A federal agency is suing Walmart for discriminating against pregnant employees. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Friday that it had filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Walmart violated the law when it refused to accommodate pregnant employees’ requests for a lighter work load. According to the EEOC, Alyssa Gilliam and…

5 stunning stats on Amazon The world’s most popular service for live-streaming video games may have just lost a big potential market. Twitch, which is owned by Amazon (AMZN), is no longer accessible to users inside China. It has also disappeared from Apple’s (AAPL) iOS App Store in China. A spokesman for Twitch confirmed Friday…

New Age Beverages The 11 pointers I recently gave to investors to carefully make money in marijuana stocks have generated a lot of interest. To read about the 11 pointers, please see “How to potentially become a marijuana millionaire, albeit carefully.” In addition to the bigger cannabis stocks such as Canopy Growth CGC, -5.00% Cronos…

MarketWatch rounds up 10 of its most interesting topics over the past week. 1. Smokin’ marijuana stocks’ Move over bitcoin and ilk: Shares of Canadian marijuana companies went through the roof this week after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration approved Tilray’s plan to import a medical cannabis product. (A Republican congressman disagrees.) Tilray’s TLRY, -30.25%…

Happy Friday, MarketWatchers! Here are your top personal finance stories of the day. Personal Finance Why you may want to buy a few extra toys this holiday season Toy prices will likely rise as a result of tariffs on Chinese goods. Oh baby! Cribs, bassinets, diaper bags and other infant products on tariff hit list…

Pot company CEO optimistic the U.S. market could open up The head of a big publicly traded pot company said he’s preparing for potential changes that will make his products available in America. Cannabis is still illegal in the United States under federal law, even though a number of states have legalized marijuana. But Bruce…

Google execs discuss election on internal video Google employees last year considered displaying pro-immigration information when people searched terms related to the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban. In emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal, employees suggested ways to show different results for “Islam,” “Muslim,” terms related to “Mexico,” “HIspanic” and “Latino,” and terms that…

India’s path to double-digit growth One of India’s most prominent bankers is being forced out of his job after more than 14 years. Yes Bank announced Friday that India’s central bank had ordered its founder and CEO Rana Kapoor to step down in January 2019. Its shares crashed nearly 30%, wiping around $3 billion off…