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$$$Fed’s Lockhart Favors Interest-Rate Liftoff Later This Year [Bloomberg]

$$$Fortress Shutting Part of Hedge-Fund Business [WSJ]

$$$The Benefits of Allowing Bitcoin to Flourish [Dealbook]

$$$How to Lose $667 Million in Bond Trades Without Trying [Bloomberg]

$$$Peanut company CEO sentenced to 28 years for salmonella outbreak [Reuters]

$$$Fed Should Hold Hearing on Goldman-GE Banking Deal, NCRC Says [Bloomberg]

$$$KKR, Hellman & Friedman sniff out Petco for potential deal [NYP]

$$$Rapper Snoop Dogg starts site focused on weed [CNBC]

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