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Good morning. Today is Thursday, December 5th. I'm Julie Morgan. Have you checked out the price of Bitcoin?

Shell and Equinore combine assets, and some DC residents say Amazon is charging them for something they aren't getting.

Bitcoin has finally managed to cross the $100,000 milestone mark as the cryptocurrency continues

to see a meteoric rise after Donald Trump's win. The world's oldest cryptocurrency has risen

45% since Election Day.

At last check, Bitcoin is trading 6.5% higher at $103,189.

The crypto rally was further fueled by the nomination of cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins

to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The president-elect wrote on Truth Social that

Atkins believes in the promise of robust, innovative capital markets that are responsive to the

needs of investors and that provide capital to make our economy the best in the world. He went on

to say that Atkins also recognizes that digital assets and other innovations

are crucial to making America greater than ever before. Atkins will replace Gary Gensler,

who has been leading the U.S. government's crackdown on the crypto industry during the Biden regime.

Gensler announced last month that he would be stepping down from his post on the day

that Trump is inaugurated, January 20th of 2025. Oil giant Shell and Norway's state-run energy firm

Equinnor will combine their UK offshore oil and gas assets to form a new company that will be the

UK's largest independent oil and gas producer. The 50 new company that will be the UK's largest independent oil and

gas producer. The 50-50 joint venture is aimed as sustaining domestic oil and gas production

and security of energy supply in the UK, at a time when the UK North Sea Basin is maturing

and production is naturally declining. A range of exploration licenses will also

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