Wal-Mart Raises Wages, and Bitcoin Plunges on S. Korean Ban Talks
Wal-Mart announced it would raise its starting wage to $11 an hour, thanks to the newly passed tax reform. The company will also expand maternity and paternal leave benefits and give some employees a $1,000 one-time bonus.
And South Korean regulators say they may ban trading in Bitcoin, sending the price of cryptocurrencies plunging. Officials raiding exchanges in the country over tax evasion.
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