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• Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Soars and Palo Alto Networks Inc. Falls as Stocks Rise

  

  After trading sideways for most of the session on Friday, stocks picked up in the afternoon to end with solid gains heading into the long weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) gained 45 points or 0.2%, and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) added 9 points, or 0.4%. Both indexes rose by better than 2% for the week and are nearing year-to-date highs. ^DJI data by YCharts. In economic news, the government revised its estimate of first-quarter GDP up to 0.8% from the prior 0.5% esti..

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• Baker Hughes: US Oil Drillers Cut Rigs Despite Price Decovery

  

  May 27 (Reuters) - U.S. oil drillers cut rigs for a ninth week in the last 10, energy services company Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday, even as crude prices this week tested a seven-month high at $50 a barrel. Prices were on track to recover for seven out of the last eight weeks, and are now at the high end of a level that analysts and producers had said could soon trigger a return to the well pad. Drillers cut two oil rigs in the week to May 27, bringing the total rig count down to 316, the ..

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• Six Reasons Not To Engage With Scammers, No Matter What Your Facebook Friends Tell You

  

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• Bernie Won't Give Up Trying to Move Democrats Far Left

  

  Sanders knows it isn’t easy to start a grassroots socialist movement in America. (Flickr) EspañolThere’s no doubt Bernie Sanders has been the Social Democrat’s hero in the United States and Puerto Rico over the last few months. With a little more than two weeks left in the Democratic presidential primaries in the territory of Puerto Rico and in the state of California — where 60 and 475 delegates are at stake, respectively — Sanders has not only proven that Puerto Rico’s biggest enemy is not col..

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• Housing costs 'out of reach' for many poor families

  

  WASHINGTON — Even as the federal government provides housing assistance for 5.5 million households, 7.2 million housing units are needed for more than 10 million extremely low-income families. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro delivered this bad news in a report on housing for low-income renters that is “Out of Reach,” which is the name of the study. “Our nation can’t fulfill any of our major goals — whether it’s tackling inequality, improving health care, keeping neigh..

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