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Portfolio managers chalked up the sudden turnaround for small caps to rising expectations that the Federal Reserve will deliver another interest-rate cut next month.

Portfolio managers chalked up the sudden turnaround for small caps to rising expectations that the Federal Reserve will deliver another interest-rate cut next month.

They had not spoken since their first interview, which Penelope chalked up to him being busy and perhaps shy, never mind the fact that she did not speak Norwegian.

“And where did you get the chalk and the paints?”

He would walk into the classroom, take a piece of chalk out of his pocket, go straight to the blackboard, and begin.