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Imports are expected to reach their highest volume in at least five years this month.

Guest columnist Matt Levine takes a look at how some traders have managed to go scot-free while others have not and other happenings around Wall Street this week.

We get a two day pullback and ALL I see are calls for the coming Apocalypse, Armageddon and the Rapture. Really? This tape has been so conditioned to expect higher prices that when we see profit taking it automatically gets construed as the “beginning” of something. Cant the market just be the market? Yeah, it goes down once in a while too….and yes it can go a little lower before it goes higher.

Sure the momo stocks have been hit with a waffle iron to the face again after big rallies off their lows. Those will always be the first to get hit in a pullback. Get used to it.

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A sweeping blueprint designed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to reduce conflicts of interest in the stock market won support from leaders of exchanges and large money managers.

Put your charts and your obscure indicators away—this market hasn’t peaked yet, says Ron Insana.

11 S&P 500 companies have beaten earnings expectations by 10% or more in the past four calendar quarters. USA Today reports.