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- MarketsWall St set for weekly gains on signs of cooling inflation, article with image
Wall Street's main indexes rose on Friday, setting the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq for a fourth straight week of gains on easing bets of another super-sized interest rate hike on evidence of cooling inflation.
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- New York gun bans alarm residents of upstate bear country, article with galleryLegal ·
August 12, 2022 · 3:35 PM UTC · undefined agoAlbany's creation of a list of locations that turn many places into gun-free zones clashes with what has long been a way of life in the Adirondack mountains.