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It’s no secret that goaltending in hockey is a notoriously volatile enterprise.

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Core inflation, which strips out the more volatile changes in energy and food prices, was stable, however, with services inflation picking up a little pace to 3.2% on year.

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Immergut, in her Saturday decision, distinguished the conditions in Portland from the more volatile situation in Los Angeles in June.

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Southern banks had issued currency backed by enslaved people as collateral, creating a volatile financial system that collapsed when cotton prices fell and land speculation schemes failed.

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Despite the use of safeguards such as so-called circuit breakers, which halt trading in volatile issues, flash crashes have since hit markets in other nations and asset classes.

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