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Mike McCarthy will get another chance to end a nearly three-decade stretch without a deep playoff run for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Wednesday night McCarthy will be back for a fifth season as coach after a stunning 48-32 wild-card loss to Green Bay. Dallas surged to the NFC East title in the final two weeks and had a chance for multiple home playoff games. “There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach,” Jones said in a statement with several references to the disappointment of the playoff loss. Jones' statement made no mention of an extension.

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☆ Premarket stocks: Why Wall Street should worry about retail
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of America’s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the US economy, so a recession is nearly impossible as long as consumer spending is growing. Wednesday’s report is expected to be a good one — economists polled by FactSet expect that a strong holiday shopping season boosted consumer spending by 0.4% in December from the month prior. But new data from the New York Federal Reserve on Tuesday has soured the mood on Wall Street. The outlook for consumer spending doesn’t look so bright, either. The trend marked the deepening of a demographic challenge set to have significant implications on the world’s second largest economy, report my colleagues Laura He and Simone McCarthy.

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☆ China’s population declines for second straight year as economy stumbles
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Laura He | Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Hong Kong CNN —China’s population shrank for the second year in a row in 2023, marking a deepening of a demographic challenge set to have significant implications on the world’s second largest economy. The population fell in 2023 to 1.409 billion, down some 2.08 million people from the previous year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday. The NBS confirmed that China’s economy grew by 5.2% last year, compared to a government target of around 5%. While this expansion marks a significant pick-up over 2022, when China’s economy grew by just 3%, it is still one of the country’s worst economic performances in over three decades. China’s birth rate also dropped to a new record low of 6.39 births per 1,000 people, down from 6.77 a year earlier and the lowest level since the founding of Communist China in 1949.

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NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its early days — and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television. Mark Thompson, appointed CNN's chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC, outlined a strategy to his staff Wednesday that included a corporate restructuring but few external specifics on how that transformation will take place. In the past, CNN hasn't always “gone the extra mile to squeeze every bit of value from the outstanding news and other intellectual property we create,” he wrote. “No longer.”He said the CNN.com website needs “drastic modernization.” The network also needs multiple digital projects to complement the CNN Max streaming service, he said. Thompson said CNN's television personalities must find multiplatform audiences, and praised Anderson Cooper's “All There Is” podcast about grief.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Is a New Hampshire primary without the frontrunner on the ballot and no delegates up for grabs still a New Hampshire primary? In the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary, write-in votes comprised only 2% of the total vote, or about 6,000 votes. As the number of write-ins for Biden and “Other write-ins” goes up, the number of unprocessed write-ins will go down. A total of 21 Democrats will appear by name on the New Hampshire primary ballot on Tuesday, in addition to the option to vote for a write-in candidate. She received 99% of the write-in votes cast, but the final result wasn’t known for more than two weeks after Election Day.

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☆ Opinion | How Trump’s Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses was resounding enough to make the race for the Republican nomination look essentially finished at the start. But it wasn’t resounding enough to remove the sense that it could have been otherwise, that yet again his opposition within the Republican Party made things ridiculously easy for his candidacy. Trump is essentially running an incumbent’s campaign, presenting himself as the default leader of the party, declining to debate, rolling up endorsements. Eugene McCarthy’s 42 percent of the New Hampshire primary vote in 1968 forced Lyndon Johnson out of the race. Ted Kennedy’s 31 percent in Iowa and 37 percent in New Hampshire in 1980 betokened a long and bitter campaign for Jimmy Carter.

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☆ Mike Johnson seeks to avoid McCarthy's fate as he navigates shutdown and immigration
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Sahil Kapur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Under pressure from right-wing members, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faces stark challenges in keeping the government funded and responding to a potential Senate deal that would toughen immigration laws while providing funding for Ukraine. But passing the spending deal could make it politically more difficult for Johnson to support an emerging bipartisan Senate immigration deal that the right wing of the GOP is turning against. 2 is his position, but he was careful not to reveal specifics of what the House would accept if a Senate immigration deal came together, the sources said. Johnson's allies believe GOP opponents of the spending deal may vote against it but doubt they'll come for his job.

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☆ Kate Moss at 50: A supermodel through the decades
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —British supermodel Kate Moss turns 50 today — and she remains as much a cultural icon as when she emerged as a breakout star more than three decades ago. Johnny Green/PA/Getty Images Kate Moss and her then-boyfriend, the actor Johnny Depp, attend the Golden Globe Awards in 1995. Dave M. Benett/Getty Images Kate Moss and Jamie Hince pose with bridesmaids after getting married on July 1, 2011 in Southrop, England. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Moss arrives for a screening of the movie "Loving" at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Scroll through the gallery above to see some of the most memorable moment’s from Kate Moss’ life and career.

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☆ Opinion: Trump dominates in Iowa, showing event strong rivals can’t touch him
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Opinion Daniel Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump’s easy win in Iowa on Monday confirms that there really is no race for the Republican nomination this year. Iowa is a solid red state that gives a good sense of where the Republican Party as a whole stands today. The DeSantis campaign and its outside allies spent $35 million in the state between January 1, 2023, and January 12 of this year. Even with an almost 2:1 spending advantage over Trump, DeSantis couldn’t mount an effective challenge — not even with the backing of Reynolds and Vander Plaats. DeSantis and Haley were not weak opponents — but as Iowa shows, even strong rivals can’t touch Trump.

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☆ Mitt Romney says lawmakers should get paid even more than $174,000 so that lawmakers stop sleeping in their offices
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewRepublican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah says he believes members of Congress are not paid enough. AdvertisementAsked about McHenry's comments by Business Insider, Romney declared: "I agree." "You have quite a number of members of Congress that sleep in their offices," said Romney. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a man of relatively modest means, has long slept in his Capitol Hill office. And former House Speaker Paul Ryan — Romney's running mate in 2012 — was known to do the same thing.

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☆ Congressional Leaders Unveil Stopgap Bill to Head Off Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Catie Edmondson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Congressional leaders unveiled stopgap legislation on Sunday to avert a partial government shutdown, teeing up a race to pass the bipartisan spending deal into law before a deadline at the end of the week. The bill, which came out of a spending deal negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, would temporarily extend funding for some federal agencies until March 1 and for others through March 8. It would keep the government funded at its current spending levels, without any policy changes or conditions. In a sign that Democrats were preparing to muster the bulk of the votes to pass the bill, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, signaled his backing of the bill on Sunday night. He wrote to his caucus that he was “in strong support of the effort to keep the appropriations process moving forward and avoid a disruptive partial government shutdown.”

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Dak Prescott threw two interceptions before three mostly empty touchdown passes in another playoff flop for him and the No. These Packers, with the four-time MVP's successor, left little doubt with a 48-16 fourth-quarter lead before two late Dallas TDs. Facing the NFL's fifth-best defense, Green Bay matched its Super Bowl-winning team from 2010 for the most points in a playoff game. Jones rushed for 118 yards, putting him over the century mark in all four career games against the Cowboys with nine touchdowns. Prescott finished 41 of 60 for 403 yards, with all three of his touchdowns to tight end Jake Ferguson.

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☆ Packers dominate Cowboys to advance in NFL playoffs and throw Dallas into disarray while Lions defeat Rams in 1st playoff win in 32 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Jacob Lev | Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +38 min

Matt Krohn/USA Today Network/Reuters New York Jets linebacker Quincy Williams grabs the jersey of Washington Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuel on December 24. Adam Hunger/AP Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Josh Downs can't make the catch as Atlanta Falcons cornerback Clark Phillips III defends on December 24. Nathan Ray Seebeck/USA Today Network/Reuters Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jayden Reed stiff arms Joey Porter Jr. of the Pittsburgh Steelers on November 12. Michael Conroy/AP Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes walks off the field after the Chiefs' loss to the Denver Broncos on October 29. Michael Dwyer/AP Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams drops a pass in the end zone on October 22.

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☆ Moderate Democrats could save House Speaker Johnson from wrath of hard-line conservatives over spending deal, says report
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Democrats are prepared to defend Speaker Mike Johnson from far-right Republicans, NBC News reported. Dissent has grown among Republicans after Johnson brokered a bipartisan spending deal. AdvertisementA group of moderate Democrats has signaled their readiness to support Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson if hard-line conservatives attempt to remove him from power, echoing the ousting of his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, NBC News reports. The pledge of support provides Johnson with a stronger standing amid fresh threats from far-right members dissatisfied with the bipartisan spending deal he brokered. In a meeting with conservatives, including MAGA sentinel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposes the spending deal, Johnson maintained, "Our top-line agreement remains."

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WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders have reached an agreement on a short-term spending deal that would avert a government shutdown in the next few weeks, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The deal would keep the government funded until March, buying legislators more time to craft longer-term, agency-specific spending bills, following the agreement last weekend to set the overall spending level for fiscal year 2024 at $1.59 trillion. Speaker Mike Johnson is set to hold a call with fellow House Republicans at 8 p.m. Sunday to discuss spending negotiations. Several hard-right Republicans have objected to the top-line spending deal he previously cut with Senate Democrats and have urged Johnson to go back on it, though he said Friday that the agreement remains intact. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats praised the top-line spending agreement after it was announced last weekend, even as they acknowledged that a short-term bill would be needed to buy more time to negotiate.

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☆ What’s at stake for the global economy as Taiwan goes to the polls
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

That pushed Taiwan’s trade surplus with China to an enormous $80.5 billion in 2023. For Taiwan, China has been its favorite investment stop for decades. China imports electronic components or precision machine tools from Taiwan, assembles them and exports the finished products to global markets. China may respond to a DPP victory by putting military and economic pressure on the island, Vest said. In 2022, China retaliated after Pelosi’s visit by banning imports of a range of food products from Taiwan.

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☆ Kevin McCarthy compared his relationship with Trump to romantic partners fighting
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMonths after he was ousted as speaker of the House, ultimately leading him to say "Fuck you" to former President Donald Trump, now-retired Rep. Kevin McCarthy now compares his relationship with him to romantic partners fighting. Advertisement"There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump," McCarthy reportedly said in a leaked recording. "I fought hard to bring the conference together behind Trump," McCarthy said. Advertisement"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," Trump reportedly said. And while the two ultimately made amends post-Trump's presidency, Trump ultimately did very little to support McCarthy as he was set to lose his speakership at the end of 2023.

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One could practically see the temper tantrum that was sure to materialize from hard-line conservative House members when over the weekend House Speaker Mike Johnson cut a deal with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to back a top-line funding total key to preventing a government shutdown. At a closed-door GOP House caucus meeting Wednesday morning, Johnson was skewered by the far-right flank of his party, who scoffed at the funding deal. “Mike Johnson doesn’t work for Chuck Schumer and the White House. Johnson, who has garnered respect from his far-right colleagues as an outspoken Christian conservative, surely knew the deal with Schumer would irk hard-liners. Nor does there appear to be an appetite for another wrenching and divisive battle for yet another speaker, especially as House Republicans seek to present a united political front in this critical election year.

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☆ Days from government shutdown, Speaker Johnson may need short-term spending bill he previously opposed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Senate Republicans repeatedly said this week that a short-term spending bill may be necessary to keep the government open, a harsh reality for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is balancing a looming shutdown deadline with the demands of hardline Republicans. The last temporary spending bill Congress passed, in November, established a laddered schedule of funding deadlines, the first on Jan. 19 and the other on Feb. 2. Meanwhile, eyes are on Johnson to follow through on the hardline Republican demands he was elected to champion. If not, he could meet the same fate as his predecessor, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who was ousted in part for conceding to Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. While following through on the hardline demands would earn Johnson points with some House Republicans, it makes negotiating with Democrats harder, adding time to budget talks that he does not have.

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☆ Fresh from a murder sentence, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is becoming the internet's favorite influencer
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The 32-year-old was recently released from prison after eight years for orchestrating the murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard. Where Gypsy Rose Blanchard's story beganDee Dee Blanchard and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. AdvertisementBehind closed doors Dee Dee was overbearing, but to the outside world, it was a different story. She was also a lot older than Dee Dee was telling people she was. In one with People after her release, she said killing Dee Dee was an act of "panic" and "desperation" because she was facing yet another surgery.

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☆ GOP Congresswoman dings her party for ending proxy voting: 'Get with the times'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A GOP representative said House rules need to allow for proxy voting, at least for pregnant members. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna chastised her party's decision to disallow the practice altogether. Former Rep. Kevin McCarthy banned proxy voting in January 2023 when he became speaker of the House. AdvertisementA freshman GOP representative pushed back against her party on Wednesday morning for banning House members from voting via proxy. "The House of Representatives needs to get with the times ref women in office," Luna posted on X.

Persons: Anna Paulina Luna, Kevin McCarthy, —, Luna, I'm Organizations: GOP, Service, Congressional, Representatives, Business

☆ Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to step down at the end of the year
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-20 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will step down from his role as head of the video game company on Dec. 29, according to an internal memo from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Wednesday. The leadership change was expected after Microsoft closed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October. He first joined the company as Director and CEO of Activision Inc., in February 1991 before serving as CEO of Activision Blizzard beginning in July 2008. In a memo to employees Wednesday, Kotick expressed "gratitude and appreciation" for his time at Activision Blizzard. Thomas Tippl, the vice chairman of Activision Blizzard; Rob Kostich, president of Activision Publishing; Mike Ybarra, president of Blizzard Entertainment; and others will report to Matt Booty, the president of Microsoft's Game Content and Studios.

Persons: Bobby Kotick, Phil Spencer, Kotick, Bobby —, Spencer, Tony Hawk, Thomas Tippl, Rob Kostich, Mike Ybarra, Matt Booty, Brian Bulatao, Dave McCarthy, — CNBC's Jordan Novet Organizations: Activision, Microsoft Gaming, Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Activision Inc, CNBC, Activision Blizzard's, Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard, Gaming, CNBC PRO Locations: U.S, Europe

☆ Big M&A and Bob Iger's future: 13 media executives make their anonymous 2024 predictions
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-20 | by ( Alex Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Executive 2: Bob Iger will, again, extend his contract as Disney CEO Earlier this year, Disney CEO Bob Iger renewed his contract through 2026. This executive predicted "fool me five times, shame on me." This executive predicted Peltz and Rasulo will win their campaign and both join the board. This person predicted Disney would purchase privately held Candle Media to acquire Moonbug Entertainment, the owner of CoComelon. This executive predicted Yaccarino would either lose patience or find her job increasingly pointless and leave the company in 2024.

Persons: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Walt Disney Company Bob Iger, Michael M, David Zaslav, Slaven Vlasic, NBCUniversal, Brian Roberts, Roberts, Donna Langley, Bob Iger, Iger, Nelson Peltz, Jay Rasulo, Marco Bello, Peltz, Rasulo, Disney's, Dana Walden, Dana Walden Jason Laveris, Disney Entertainment Dana Walden, Walden, Bob Chapek, Andrew Wilson, Wilson, Chris Licht wouldn't, McCarthy, Andrew Wilson Michael Newberg, Kevin Mayer, Mayer, Bryan van der Beek, Tom Staggs, Staggs, Jayson Tatum, Kyle Terada, NBCUniversal's Peacock, Alec Martinez, Gray, Discovery's Max, Jeff Zucker, Lady Michelle Obama's, Michelle Obamas, Cheriss, Gerry Cardinale, Jeff Shell, RedBird, Shari Redstone's, David Ellison, Byron Trott, Zucker, Mark Thompson, Linda Yaccarino, X Linda Yaccarino, Vox, Jerod Harris, Yaccarino, CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Boorstin, Elon Musk's, Jason LaVeris, Barbie, Mario, Oppenheimer, LightShed's Greenfield Organizations: Walt Disney Company, New York Times, Santiago, Getty, Jazz, Lincoln Center, Warner Bros ., Comcast, Warner Bros, Discovery, Disney, Trian Fund Management, Future Investment Initiative, Summit, Bloomberg, Filmmagic, Disney Entertainment, Electronic Arts, CNBC, Candle Media, Iger, Media, Moonbug Entertainment, Apple Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, USA, National Basketball Association, NBA, Apple, The College, ESPN, College, NHL, MLB, Vegas Golden Knights, Florida Panthers, Mobile, National Hockey League, Diamond Sports Group, Scripps, Gray Television, Las Vegas Golden Knights, Arizona Coyotes, Phoenix Suns, Street Journal, Netflix, Hulu, Max, Paramount, RedBird, Paramount Global, CNN Worldwide, CNN, NurPhoto, BDT, The Ritz, Carlton, FilmMagic, Mario Bros Locations: New York City, Disney, Miami , Florida, Las Vegas , Nevada, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point , California

☆ Congress could punt Ukraine aid to 2024, snarl government funding talks
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-13 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I would stay here indefinitely, but I don't know that all our colleagues will be able to do that," Speaker Johnson said at a Wall Street Journal conference on Monday. A small but vocal group of hardline House Republicans nearly shut down the government over their opposition to $6 billion of Ukraine aid included in the federal budget. Hours before a government shutdown deadline of Oct. 1, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to strip out the Ukraine aid to pass a bill to keep the government open. If Ukraine funding talks get delayed to 2024 and become a pawn in the coming budget negotiations, Speaker Johnson could be at risk of meeting the same fate McCarthy did. Johnson already faces an uphill budget battle, without the added burden of Ukraine aid talks.

Persons: Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's, Joe Biden's, Sen, Lindsey Graham, Zelenskyy, we're, I'm, Chuck Schumer, Mike Johnson, Johnson, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, McCarthy Organizations: White, Republican, Democratic, Street, Top, Republicans, House Republicans Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington, Ukraine, Ky

☆ Experts say retirement-age investors should consider active ETF strategies. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-10 | by ( Anna Gleason | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Investors nearing retirement are looking for ways to earn stable income while still growing their assets long term. Sohn suggested that investor appetite for stable income products has grown in part because of this year's narrow market leadership. That's leading some experts to recommend actively managed strategies, which represent 23.3% of all flows into equity and income products this year, according to data from Strategas. Brendan McCarthy, Goldman Sachs Asset Management's managing director of exchange-traded funds, contends that active ETFs with an options overlay strategy can help investors achieve those stable returns. McCarthy manages Goldman Sachs' new active funds, Goldman Sachs S&P 500 Core Premium Income ETF (GPIX) and Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Core Premium Income ETF (GPIQ).

Persons: Todd Sohn, CNBC's, Sohn, That's, Brendan McCarthy, Goldman, McCarthy, Goldman Sachs, GPIX, GPIQ Organizations: Goldman, Goldman Sachs Nasdaq, Nasdaq Locations: Strategas, Goldman Sachs

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