ups

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The investor ups their order to 200 shares, still hoping to get 50.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

We asked four families to lay out the financial ups and downs of older parenthood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

A high-school athlete, she had ups and downs with body image and food after having two children, and buying new clothes for herself wasn’t a favorite exercise.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

The latter has seen mostly consistent “all-weather outperformance” throughout market ups and downs of this year.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

She didn’t join the others training at Engels until February 1942, which meant she didn’t get to share the ups and downs of becoming soldiers or making friends during the first few months there.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein