Kedrosky's Weekend Reading

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Good Sunday morning, and welcome to Weekend Reading. As always, here are some articles and papers worth reading. First, however, let's review the week that just finished and take a look forward to the week ahead.

The major U.S. indices were up last week for the first time in three weeks. While it may have felt worse than it was, the reality is that the markets only saw losses two days last week, and those weren't enough to offset gains. The Dow and the S&P 500 ended the week up 0.4% and 1.4% respectively, while the Nasdaq gained 1.3%.

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