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Michael Brown’s body lacked bruising or signs of blows that would have indicated a struggle, former medical examiner says.
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Mortgage-finance giant Fannie Mae slashed its outlook on Monday for 2014’s housing market, reasoning that too much momentum was lost during the first half of the year.

Among the best performing retailers of the last decade, the big dollar stores are caught in a consolidation craze. Yet their growth prospects might be dimming. Store saturation, stiffer competition and an improving economy will make it hard for Dollar General and Dollar Tree to keep satisfying investors.

A new report from Bankrate.com finds that 36% of Americans have not saved any money for retirement.

One of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control groups this week will begin pressuring the nation’s largest supermarket operator to dissuade individuals from openly carrying weapons in its stores, following successful campaigns with other national retailers. The bid to change Kroger Co.’s policy comes after Mr. Bloomberg’s groups, including Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, have had mixed results in backing candidates in elections and trying to influence changes in government gun regulations. The groups have won public-relations victories when Target Corp.

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In a recent Wall Street Journal survey, 30 private economists said they feared the Federal Reserve would wait too long before raising short-term interest rates, while only three said they feared the Fed would move too early. Will the Fed fall behind the curve and keep interest rates too low for too long as the economy strengthens? Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and academic papers presented at the meeting will focus on labor markets, which are improving rapidly even though U.S. economic growth has been sluggish and erratic.

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Shipments of wearable devices are set to explode 129 percent in 2014 amid a slew of new products slated to come to market, according to CCS Insight.