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Ahead of a big week of earnings reports including a first look at some Big Tech, it was a relatively quiet weekend on the newswires although reports did emerge that the European Union may not necessarily be willing to roll over and have its tummy tickled by the United States, supposedly preparing meaningful retaliatory trade measures in advance of tariff impositions on August 1st.
Stocks opened cautiously higher on Monday morning helped by encouraging Q2 numbers from Verizon, but the indexes flattened out as the session wore on after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office confirmed that…
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