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Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick says the company is growing ‘five times faster’ today than last year on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
The stock market has been on an impressive run since the 2022 bear market. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) — which tracks the largest 500 American companies on the stock market — has strung together three consecutive years of double-digit returns and is up 13% as of market close on Aug. 7.
As of 11:39 AM ET, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has fallen 0.21% to 7,782.65, and the NasdaqComposite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) is down 0.50% to 26,664.30 as investors balance recent record highs against soft retail data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) has slipped 0.19% to 53,735.56
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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market edged back from its all-time high Friday following the latest report on the economy to come in surprisingly weak, this time about how much shoppers are spending at retailers. Such data could keep interest rates low, which is something Wall Street loves, but it also raises the risk of a slowing economy when inflation…