#Bitcoin down 12 percent this week as stock market wobbles

#Bitcoin down 12 percent this week as stock market wobbles

“#Bitcoin down 12 percent this week as stock market wobbles” Bitcoin’s rough week just keeps getting worse. The notoriously volatile cryptocurrency was changing hands around $42,100 Wednesday morning, down 2.8 percent over the previous 24 hours and a whopping 12 percent since Sunday.  That’s the lowest sustained bitcoin price since early August, according to Coinbase…

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#Awful UConn makes for college football betting story

#Awful UConn makes for college football betting story

“#Awful UConn makes for college football betting story” Normally in this space, the focus is on excellence. Not today. Instead, I want to talk about ineptitude that is both robust and historic — a level of football so bad that it is perplexing bookmakers, bettors and casual fans. Let’s talk about Connecticut football. Now, it’s…

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#Melbourne, Australia struck by magnitude 5.9 earthquake

#Melbourne, Australia struck by magnitude 5.9 earthquake

“#Melbourne, Australia struck by magnitude 5.9 earthquake” MELBOURNE, Australia — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne on Wednesday in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia. The quake hit about 80 miles northeast of Australia’s second-most populous city near the town of Mansfield at a depth of 10 6 miles, Geoscience Australia…

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