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What began as a narrow, tech-driven rally has steadily broadened in 2025, pulling in sectors and stocks that had previously lagged behind or missed out entirely.

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In some cases, they have attributed reported health-effects from fume exposure to factors including hyperventilation, jet lag, psychological stress, mass hysteria and malingering.

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Often, the Fed minutes—released with a three-week lag—can be stale because intervening economic data releases have shed new light on the outlook in ways that resolve divisions over the appropriate path for policy.

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The point is, this celebration of switches is a choice, an effort to stay ahead, or else lag safely behind, the growing public backlash against touchscreen-dominated car interiors.

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While Europe’s venture-capital scene has grown in recent years, it still lags behind the U.S.

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