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MIAMI, FLORIDA - MAY 28: A GameStop sign hangs near the entrance on May 28, 2024 in Miami, Florida. GameStop stock jumped higher after the video game retailer announced that it had raised $933 million by selling 45 million common shares of its stock earlier this month. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Wall Street is putting its foot down as ‘Roaring Kitty’ strikes again
A customer pushes a shopping cart at a Target store on Black Friday in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
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Middle-class Americans are falling behind
People walk past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on May 17, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
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People are exiting the stock market in droves
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 05: People shop at a Target store in Manhattan on March 05, 2024 in New York City. As it showed progress in raising profits, the Minneapolis-based retailer’s shares jumped nearly 12% in afternoon trading despite a drop in sales. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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YOLO is dying. That could be bad news for the economy
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Even high-income Americans are shopping more at discount retailers
A Ross store in San Francisco, California, US, on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023.
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American shoppers are tired. These companies are benefiting
A shopper walks through an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, May 2, 2024.
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Inflation seems to be cooling again. Americans aren’t buying it
ConocoPhillips announced that it would buy out Marathon shareholders, giving them about 0.255 of COP common stock for every share of Marathon.
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Big oil shareholders could get a lot richer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 24: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 24, 2024 in New York City. Stocks rose at the opening bell a day after the Dow Jones closed under 600 points, its worst session in more than a year. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Analysts are feeling good about the stock market because of this economic signal
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 17, 2024 in New York City. Wall Street stocks opened little changed May 17 after pulling back from a record run where the Dow exceeded 40,000 points for the first time. Around 10 minutes into trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average was steady at 39,872.66.
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This is the word of the summer on Wall Street
Cars drive along a highway during the Memorial Day weekend while the New York Skyline and the Empire State Building are seen in the background in Clifton, New Jersey, U.S. May 24, 2024.
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Americans are expected to splurge on travel this summer — again
Shoppers at a Walmart store in Secaucus, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Walmart is revamping more than 800 store locations and adding high-end products.
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Walmart and Target are slashing prices. What does that mean for inflation?
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 31: A customer shops at a Dollar General store on August 31, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Dollar General stock plunged more than 12 percent today as the retail chain, faced with declining consumer demand and heavy losses attributed to retail theft, missed analysts expectation. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Strong spending is obscuring an economy that isn’t working for many Americans
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) speaks to the Economic Club of New York in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., April 23, 2024.
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Jamie Dimon is worried about how much the US is borrowing. Here’s why
Will the Fed lower interest rates in September? That's the billion dollar question.
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Why Jay Powell really wants to lower interest rates this September
A woman walks in front a Burberry store on March 12, 2021 in New York City.
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Wealthy Americans are starting to spend more carefully
ZHANGYE, CHINA - APRIL 16, 2024 - Workers check photovoltaic panels before packing at the New Material 800MW high-efficiency photovoltaic module production line in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, April 16, 2024.
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Biden’s tariffs on Chinese imports are boosting these beaten-down stocks
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The Vistra Zero facility, lower left, at the Moss Landing Power Plant in Moss Landing, Calif., on Wednesday, January 13, 2021.
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Forget the Magnificent Seven. These AI plays are red hot
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The pandemic has changed when Americans expect to retire