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Private healthcare exchanges are booming. These 3 stocks could help investors’ portfolios boom along with them.

One of the major reasons for yesterday’s market surge to new record highs was the surprise drop and miss in the April wholesale inflation report, or rather make that deflation, when the BLS announced that PPI in April had dropped by 0.4%, far below expectation of a 0.1% increase, of which the BLS said “over 30 percent can be attributed to the index for gasoline, which decreased 4.7 percent.”

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Shares rose in Europe on Friday after the European Central Bank’s governor Mario Draghi said its quantitative easing policy would continue for as long as needed. Markets also got a lift from a rebound …

Unemployment might be low, but poor productivity proves the economy is far from full health, Nobel prize-winning economist Krugman argues.

Netflix Inc. is in talks with a Chinese media company backed by Jack Ma and other possible partners as it seeks entry into the country’s $5.9 billion online video market, according to people familiar with the matter. Netflix has held discussions with companies including Wasu Media Holding Co. about forming a partnership, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Netflix plans “to be nearly global by the end of 2016,” a spokeswoman, Anne Marie Squeo, said in response to questions about a possible China partnership.

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Danaher Corp announced it would buy air and water-filter maker Pall Corp in a $13.8 billion deal, pipeline operator Williams Cos said it would buy affiliate Williams Partners LP also for about $13.8 billion in stock and Verizon Communications Inc said it would buy AOL Inc in a $4.4 billion deal. Worldwide M&A activity is up 30 percent so far this year compared to the same period in 2014, with $1.4 trillion worth of deals having been struck.

Like an underachieving student, the U.S. economy isn’t living up to the high hopes it began the year with. Consumers have been uncharacteristically frugal, even as the country added jobs and a sharp drop …