When a company reports good news or bad news about its business, it can often produce a spillover effect on how investors view the prospects of its competitors.

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But regardless of how you feel about the Affordable Care Act, its effect on premiums this year is modest.

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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani must sign the law before it takes effect, and Petraeus and Crocker said its impact will depend on how it's implemented.

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You can see how staying happily married has its financial rewards, regardless of the cause and effect.

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We know exactly how it is created, even insofar as the rate that it is created and its effect on inflation.

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In any case, the iPod shuffle has proved the product's vaunted "halo effect" in that, when Apple introduced its new iPod in January, everybody stopped talking about how many copies of Halo 2 Microsoft shipped during December.

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