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That means Oracle’s future prospects are tightly intertwined with a money-losing start-up with a current revenue run rate of just $10 billion.

Economic data show growth in August’s personal consumption expenditures price index at close to 3%, and the unemployment rate rising by a tenth of a percentage point.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect that the consumer price index rose 0.4% in September, matching the rate of growth in August.

Sure, the rally is heading into its fourth year, but that is only because the Federal Reserve is ignoring inflation risks and cutting interest rates.

If you get a resurgence of inflation, and the Fed has to really start raising interest rates, there’s a real fear that the economy is going to slow in a material way.