pressures

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“Technical pressures are evident,” said Lawrence Gillum, chief fixed income strategist at LPL Financial.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Any heatwave developing may put short term pressures on water companies.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

They are constructed products governed by rules, committees, methodologies, assumptions and increasingly competitive business pressures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Many economists expect the central bank to begin raising interest rates as early as July to contain inflationary pressures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Around the time of his fourteenth birthday, with all the pressures of church and home uniting to drive him to the altar, he strove to appear more serious and therefore less conspicuous.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin