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Global Heartburn: How Today’s Dow Jones Hiccup Infected Markets from Mumbai to Milan
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Dow Jones Today: Because One Sickly Index is Apparently Enough to Give the Whole Planet Heartburn By our correspondent in the departure lounge of a half-empty world NEW YORK—The Dow Jones Industrial Average coughed, sneezed, and briefly flat-lined this morning, proving once again that 30 arbitrarily picked American companies can still give the other 7.9…

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Build-A-Bear Stock: The Plush Indicator Rocking World Markets (And Our Last Nerve)
ByDaveslocker 23 September 2025

Build-A-Bear Stock: When Stuffed Animals Become a Global Economic Barometer By Our Man in the Duty-Free Abyss ZURICH—On a rainy Tuesday that smelled faintly of melted Toblerone and banking anxiety, the Financial Times flashed a headline that made seasoned traders choke on their oat-milk cortados: Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. (NYSE: BBW) had beaten quarterly expectations—again. Shares…

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