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Monday’s rebound didn’t shift stock-market momentum to upside
- Dow’s recent surge belies fact that stock market is on the brink of an absolute breakdown
- Stocks may already be in a bear market —here’s how long it could last
- Dow and S&P have doubled the number of 1% moves seen in all of 2017 — it’s still March
- Brace for more ‘poor’ action in U.K. stocks, says world’s largest asset manager
- Stocks struggling for direction Tuesday after Monday rebound
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2020 Census will ask about citizenship
The questionnaire for the 2020 Census will ask people if they are U.S. citizens, the Commerce Department said Monday night, despite the objections of Democrats. The inclusion of that question has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, and in a statement the Commerce Department said it had been added at the request of the Justice Department. The question is controversial because it may scare undocumented immigrants from filling out the Census form. The Census is meant to count all U.S. residents, not just citizens. Undercounting the population of undocumented immigrants could have major repercussions as Census data is used to redraw House districts, decide the number of House seats each state gets and the number of electoral votes for each state. That could reduce the influence of urban areas and traditionally Democratic strongholds. Nearly 20 Democratic state attorneys general had appealed to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to keep the question off the Census form, saying it would manipulate the count. Monday's statement said Ross "determined that obtaining complete and accurate information to meet this legitimate government purpose outweighed the limited potential adverse impacts." The final wording of the Census form is due Saturday.
BreakingHome-builder ETFs fall after Case-Shiller data
Exchange-traded funds that track the home-building sector fell on Tuesday, following the most recent data on home prices. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF fell 0.4% while the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF was down 0.6%. The PowerShares Dynamic Building & Construction Portfolio slid 0.6%. The S&P/Case-Shiller national index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in the three-month period ending in January, and was up 6.2% compared with a year before. Among specific companies, D.R. Horton Inc. fell 0.9% while Toll Brothers Inc. was off 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped less than 0.1% while the S&P 500 was down 0.1% and the Nasdaq Composite Index was unchanged.
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Personal finance
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Inside Marketwatch
Brookfield to buy remainder of GGP to create one of the world’s largest retail real-estate companies
Brookfield Property Partners LP and GGP Inc. have reached an agreement for Brookfield to buy the remaining shares of the mall owner it doesn’t already own, a deal that would create one of the world’s largest retail real-estate companies.
