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Jan 2024
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Tech stocks rally on AI boom even as yie...

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Apple and semiconductors push Nasdaq 100 to new record high. But Fed repricing limits gains outside of tech as yields edge up. Dollar holds firm, pound slips on data, yen propped up by verbal intervention.

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