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What needs to happen for bulls to lose confidence, and confirm that a correction is in the works, is that the S&P 500 has to start failing to make higher highs while failing to hold support.

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In the current setup, what would “confirm” a correction in the works is if the S&P 500 falls below the mid-September low, at 6,550, before the index can make a higher high.

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"Every single element you see at this station was designed so that when someone passes through here, they understand that our goal was to respect other religions, Christianity in particular," Tina Tarigh Mehr, the artist behind the works, told AFP.

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The plan to decarbonize the shipping industry had been in the works for years.

A spanner in the works could be if opposition parties agreed on a rival candidate but talks on this this week appeared to make little headway.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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