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Is the S&P 500 index’s recent rally real, or is it just a bear-market bounce? That’s always a question investors have when the market is rising after a significant selloff. Given all the uncertainty ...

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April 17 (Reuters) - India will release its industrial output numbers on the 28th of every month, the government said on Thursday. The change reduces the data lag by about a fortnight and the ...

Some of the following information is copied from Wikipedia: Though named after Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, these numbers were first described in Indian mathematics as early as 200 BCE ...

Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...