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The Fed shouldn’t get baited by stock traders

  Federal Reserve policy makers don’t have an explicit target for US stocks or consumer borrowing costs, but they know something’s off when they see it, and there’s a chance that now is one of those times. The S&P 500 Index has rallied 17% from its June lows through August 16, and consumer credit is growing at one of the ...

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Biden’s new climate act may meet fierce foe

  It is not true that we need to gut our environmental protections in order to scale up green energy,” said Mahyar Sorour, deputy legislative director for Beyond Dirty Fuels at the Sierra Club. And thus goes the next chapter in the political war over whether and how the United States will join the battle against climate change. Unlike America’s ...

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Target misses its lowest profit estimate, yet predicts rebound

Bloomberg Target Corp is betting heavily on a dramatic financial comeback the rest of this year after badly trailing its own forecast as well as Wall Street’s estimates in the second quarter. The retailer stuck with its outlook for operating income of about 6% of sales during its fiscal second half after taking a painful hit from aggressive moves to ...

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