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Since late February, weak economic data and President Donald Trump's trade war have hit the stock market hard, with the broader benchmark, the S&P 500, even briefly entering correction territory

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Plenty of investors know that many things that are predicted about cryptocurrencies like Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) never come to pass. But sometimes even the most widely accepted estimates fail to come

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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been a top performer during the bull market, gaining 44% last year as investors piled into growth players and companies investing in the potentially game-changing

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