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How does your current trade fit into the
big picture?
If the trades you take fit nicely into the
larger scheme of things, you will find it much smoother sailing than butting
heads against a macro trend.

Investors who were bloodied in the year-opening stock rout will be hard pressed to find any salve next week. With prospects dimming for a strong start to earnings season, and worries about slow growth in China continuing to overhang the market, even a price-driven rally may not last beyond a day or three, say longtime market watchers. “This is a tsunami of negative psychology being driven by China,” said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors in New York.

Xiao Gang, China’s stock market tsar, once remarked that the only thing he’d done right in life was marry his wife. No doubt the self-effacing Xiao, chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has done many other things right. Managing the stock market, though, might not be a high point of his career.

A top North Korean official has given the isolated state’s first reaction since South Korea resumed its propaganda broadcasts on Thursday

If and when the interplanetary asteroid apocalypse comes, NASA plans to be prepared.

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Homeowners who can take advantage of this exemption can save on their tax bill. Here’s how.