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Port workers strike across the East and Gulf Coasts
The health of the job market has become the top concern for the Federal Reserve, which cut its benchmark interest rate last month for the first time in four years.
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Investors weren't entirely sure what the Federal Reserve would do in the days leading up to this month's meeting.
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