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While severe winter weather in North Dakota’s Bakken shale continued to affect volumes at ONEOK Partners (NYSE: OKS), the midstream MLP more than overcame those issues to post higher results than last year’s first quarter. That performance helped fuel relatively stable results at its general partner, ONEOK (NYSE: OKE). Meanwhile, ONEOK remains on pace to close its acquisition of ONEOK Partners during the second quarter, which will position the combined entity for healthy growth in the coming years.

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Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) has helped its clients with the vital job of transforming their businesses into digitally savvy operations, and the company’s efforts to expand its library of images, videos, and other content have resulted in a much larger collection over time. Yet what investors want to see from any business is profit growth, and although investors are sometimes willing to accept momentary pauses in a growth trajectory, they still want assurance that the future will work out well.

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It’s no secret that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has hired many display technology experts over the last several years. In fact, a cursory glance at Apple’s job boards shows that the company routinely hires display experts with expertise in working on the actual display panels as well as the chips required to drive those displays.

Today, though, Apple still relies on third parties to manufacture those displays and almost certainly depends on those third parties’ expertise — as well as its own technology development and ingenuity — to get those displays built.

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Yields for Treasury notes rise ahead of Fed policy statement at 2 p.m.

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