Stocks close down; Democrats plan to try to suspend the cap on government borrowing; consumer sentiment steadies

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The White House is warning state and local governments of deep federal funding cuts; OECD says rich countries aren’t reaching climate-related financial pledges; United Airlines technical outage briefly grounds flights; China applies to join ‘TPP’ trade pact

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The Justice Department argues the deal unfairly shields the Sackler family; MassMutual fined over actions of former employee Keith Gill during GameStop rally; Gulf Coast oil exports mostly on track following storms - September 17, 2021

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Marketplace Minute - Major stock indexes barely budged on Thursday . . . first-time jobless claims rose last week . . . and General Motors will idle some assembly plants for longer due to chip shortages - September 16, 2021

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Retail sales rose 0.7%, partially reversing a sharp July decline; weekly jobless claims rise to 332,000; after mandate, United says 90% of workforce now vaccinated; Maersk raises earnings outlook amid freight price increases

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The orbital flight is the first with an all-amateur crew; DoorDash sues NYC over data sharing law; GM says park Chevy Bolts 50 feet away from other cars - September 16, 2021

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Stocks rose across the board . . . millions more Americans signed up for Obamacare coverage . . . and a $30 billion-dollar tie-up in the railroad industry is announced.

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The increase was during a special enrollment period; investors group offers blueprint to gauge oil giants’ climate pledges; August manufacturing production slows to 0.2% gain; August import prices decline by 0.3%

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Nearly 3 million more people signed up for Obamacare coverage.

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That’s the total number of Americans who benefited from a special six-month enrollment period that ended in mid-August - according to President Biden. He announced today that more than 12 million people are now insured through the Affordable Care Act.

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A group of investors - that together manage some 10-trillion-dollars in assets - is offering a blueprint to assess climate pledges made by oil and gas companies - and whether they’ll reach net-zero carbon emissions by 20-50. The group includes the Church of England Pensions Board and HSBC Global Asset Management.

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The Federal Reserve says U-S manufacturing production slowed more than expected in August. Up just 2 tenths of a percent… compared to a more than one-and-a-half-percent rise in July.

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Meanwhile, the price of imported goods fell in August, by three-tenths of a percent. Fuel prices led the decline, which was the first since October of 20-20. Export prices rose 4-tenths of a percent in August.

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The latest Gulf Coast storm caused less damage than feared to oil and gas companies; Census reports pandemic stimulus spared millions from poverty; Democrats add funding for data privacy bureau to $3.5 trillion spending bill - September 15, 2021

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DEK: Stocks fall across the board . . . Consumer inflation moderates in latest report for August . . . Amazon will hire 125,000 for the holiday shopping season.

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A down day on Wall Street.

The Dow led the declines, falling 8-tenths percent.

The S&P 500 was down more than half-a-percent, and the Nasdaq Composite was down just under half-a-percent.

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The Consumer Price Index rose in August—it was up 5-point-3 percent year-over-year. That’s a slower rate of inflation than in July. Core inflation—stripping out volatile food and energy prices—rose 4-percent on an annual basis.

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Amazon has big hiring plans. The country’s second-biggest private employer after Walmart says it’ll hire 125-thousand additional workers before the holiday retail rush. Amazon says it’ll pay the new hires an average of more than $18-dollars-an-hour.

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And Comcast says it’s been adding new subscribers to its cable, internet and mobile services at a SLOWER pace than earlier this summer, and also slower than in 2019. Subscriptions ROSE earlier in the pandemic.

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