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In the 10 years following June 2000, the S&P 500 produced total returns of minus 8% — in other words, if you started with a $10,000 investment, you ended up with about $9,200.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
They continue to exist under the mummy's current storage conditions, which include a temperature of minus six degrees Celsius and high humidity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Additionally, a surge in S&P 500 net call volume — that is, trading volume in bullish calls minus volume in bearish puts — over the past few trading sessions likely helped fuel the rally further.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Instead, the banality-clogged script plays like teen TV melodrama minus the teens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The paper was covered in her work trying to decode it, which looked like a bunch of unfinished hangman games minus the hanging men.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Ponderously disjointed, unnecessarily long, and emotionally distant are its minuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The net effect of these pluses and minuses is unknown.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
So, as an introvert, what are the pluses and minuses there?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
Who even cared about the minuses on his old conduct grades by now?
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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