Silicon Valley Chiefs Notably Absent From Trump's Cabinet of Business Advisers and other top stories.

• Silicon Valley Chiefs Notably Absent From Trump's Cabinet of Business Advisers

  

  Video Trump’s Wall Street Advisers “Donald comes from the financial services world. I think he tends to pick people who he’s comfortable with,” Stephen Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group said. By CNBC on Publish Date December 2, 2016. Photo by CNBC. Watch in Times Video » In President-elect Donald J. Trump’s newly named kitchen ca..

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• Airbnb Ends Fight With New York City Over Fines

  

  Photo Airbnb supporters at a rally outside City Hall in New York last year. Credit Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press Airbnb has capitulated to the demands of lawmakers over its operations in New York City, the company’s largest market in the United States, agreeing to drop a lawsuit in which it was pushing back against a newly passed state law that it said could have hurt its business.The short-term room rental service on Friday settled the lawsuit that it had filed agai..

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• Trump's dilemma: slower job growth or rising rates and inflation?

  

  Donald Trump holds "USA Thank You Tour 2016" rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Thomson Reuters By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drop in the U.S. unemployment rate last month to a 9-year low signals the risk of a collision between President-elect Donald Trump's plans to goose the economy and the Federal Reserve's efforts to tap the brakes with higher interest rates. Since Trump's election, officials at the U.S. central bank have cautiously introduced the possi..

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• Bitcoin Users Brace For IRS Audits From Coinbase Summons

  

  The IRS’s war on alternative currencies is heating up, and many will be affected, though how--and how seriously--remains to be seen. To recap, a federal district court has ordered that Coinbase Inc. should turn over its customer account information to the government. Many Bitcoin and other digital currency users are worried that the IRS will get their account information from Coinbase. What's more, the IRS can use it to audit them, or worse, to mount a criminal investigation. Is it time to panic..

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• Cuba wanderlust thwarted as American cuts flights, Trump looms

  

  U.S. airlines were ecstatic earlier this year when it was announced that commercial flights would resume to Cuba after more than 50 years, with one executive at a major carrier calling it almost a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."Yet as U.S. airlines begin flights this week to Havana, the long-awaited travel surge to Cuba is already in doubt. Citing weak demand, American Airlines trimmed plans for almost a quarter of its flights to Cuba early next year. And in a potentially crippling blow, Pre..

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• Selling holiday trees good for W. Pa. family businesses - Tribune

  

  Updated 7 hours ago Amanda Coscarelli of Lower Burrell grew up with an artificial Christmas tree each season. Her boyfriend, Travis Eiler of West Deer, always had a fresh cut tree each Christmas at home. The couple recently strolled the acreage on Ski Christmas Tree Farm in Clinton Township, dotted with more than 20,000 Christmas trees, searching for the perfect tree. It was Coscarelli's first jaunt to a tree farm. Eiler's idea of choosing a fresh cut tree remains the most popular o..

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