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Many investors are dreaming of the growth that Tesla Motors’ Gigafactory could unlock, but is there enough global lithium to enable the growth in the first place?

Here are the best short-term investments for money you can’t afford to risk in the stock market.

Apple Watch sales are taking off. Will these two supply chain players profit?

Ideas the US economy had returned to a growth path that was sufficiently strong to permit the Federal Reserve to begin normalizing monetary policy have been challenged by the disappointing string of data. This will culminate with the first estimate of Q1 GDP on April 29.  There still seems to be some downside risk to the consensus of 1.0% annualized growth.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is convening a group of financial industry veterans for the first time next month to consider stock market reforms, but one group will be conspicuously absent: retail brokerages. The SEC’s 17-member Market Structure Advisory Committee includes representatives of fund companies, an exchange, off-exchange trading venues, dealers, and academia, among others. The group, which meets four times a year, will review old rules, and advise the SEC on a range of new regulations designed to make sure the market is as stable and fair as possible.

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At least five investment banks are vying to win a mandate from Banca Popolare di Milano (BPM) (PMII.MI) and find it a partner as Italian cooperative lenders gear up for a wave of mergers following a landmark reform of the sector. The Milanese bank, Italy’s seventh-largest by branches, has been dubbed by industry watchers the “belle of the ball” among large cooperative lenders that are looking at tie-up options as they are being forced to drop their cooperative status.

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Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday’s session are Apple, Container Store, and Universal Health Services.
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