Ingredients for a disorderly day on Wall Street

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• The stars are aligning for a volatile Friday afternoon on the stock market

  There will be a lot of repositioning happening with Tesla slated to join the S&P 500 index and futures and options expiring near the end of this Friday, says Christopher Low, chief economist at FHN Financial. “All of those things normally translate into volatility, and it’s especially true when you’ve got one of the most talked-about stocks in America joining the S&P 500 on the next business day,” Low said.

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• Fed pandemic lending programs a sticking point in COVID relief talks

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  Some Senate Republicans want a new COVID relief bill to prohibit the Fed from restarting pandemic lending programs.

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• Property crimes are down since the pandemic began

  by Jasmine Garsd

  

  Crime rates usually go up when the economy is bad. But not when there’s low inflation.

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