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The Amazon-Whole Foods deal will have winners and losers. Among the losers will be minimum wage employees like cashiers, as Amazon’s technology will make them dispensable and speed up a trend already underway in traditional retail chains…and in the process, make the $15 minimum wage irrelevant.

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The algorithm could keep Amazon's in-store shoppers from comparing online prices, a practice which helped the retail giant crush its brick-and-mortar competition.

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Let's toss the Federal Reserve Board a bunch of carrots. Dumb bunnies, looking for inflation under every rock, but finding nothing. The Fed stands victimized by its own past errors.

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By disrupting itself in 2011, Adobe has adapted to changing customer needs which propelled expectations-beating revenue and profit growth.

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Here are two stocks with strong upside technical momentum and two to watch for downside continuation.

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Oil prices officially re-entered a bear market (defined by a decline of -20% below a recent high) as global demand remains tepid and supply remains stubbornly high. Economics 101 tells us that commodity prices are a function of supply and demand.

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The environment of rising rates and cutback in regulations bode well for small-cap stocks.

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BlackRock recently took its first step into Europe’s growing digital investment manager industry – commonly referred to as the robo-advisory industry – by acquiring a minority stake in Scalable Capital.

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The on-demand mobile barbershop recently partnered with actor and entrepreneur Quincy Brown to expand the company and develop into a lifestyle brand.

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Prime Minister Modi’s currency experimentation has not stopped India’s vibrant economy, which is the world’s 4th fastest growing economy in the world thus far in 2017.

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