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Alphabet’s sagging stock has been primed for any good news, but quantum computing’s payoff is years away at best.

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U.S. natural gas futures gained with a cold blast moving across the upper Midwest and into the Northeast, prompting a bout of short-covering. The Nymex front month settled up 6.8% at $3.378/mmBtu.

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Comcast Business has struck a deal to acquire Nitel, a network-as-a-service specialist focused on midsized and enterprise customers. Nitel CEO Margi Shaw is late of Cimco, a CLEC that Comcast acquired in 2009.

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The president-elect wants a weaker dollar but markets have been betting his policies will mean an even stronger currency. Could they have Trump all wrong?