Harding suspects the tough talk from the Fed is preparing the market for a half-point hike at its next meeting in November, or that the Fed might even jump in and do an interim rate hike before then.

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All this is doubly threatening for Yahoo, because at this point, it has virtually no hope of developing a social network or even significant social media hooks into its services.

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