By Staff Reporters
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- Markets: Despite the risk of the US defaulting on its debts next month, equity traders have kept calm and carried on, sending the NASDAQ to a weekly gain last week. But over in the bond market, investors are sweating. The cost of credit-default swaps, which act as insurance against a default, is higher in the US than in emerging markets like Mexico and Brazil.
- Stock spotlight: This stat about the stock market’s concentration is wild…Apple’s market cap is now greater than the value of every company in the Russell 2000 small-cap index combined.
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