Stocks slip on Wall Street as 2025 winds down

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped in quiet trading on Wall Street Monday to kick off another holiday-shortened week. The losses have little impact on the broader annual gains for major indexes as they close out their final days of the year. There are two trading days left before the year ends. Markets in the…

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      After its stock price rose fivefold in two years, Sprouts Farmers Market has cooled off dramatically in 2025. I initially scooped up shares of better-for-you, attribute-driven grocer Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM +1.36%) for around $35 in 2023, and thought I was well on my way to experiencing my next multibagger investment. And indeed, the stock…

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      FDA Approves Oral Wegovy for Weight Loss

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      A girl holds a placard as activists demonstrate against female child marriages, in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024, amid parliamentary discussion over a proposed amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law. Rights advocates are alarmed by a bill introduced to Iraq's parliament that, (credit: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images)

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      Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and physical capacity.” Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since Iraq legalized child marriage, and human rights organizations have warned that young girls are being auctioned off in black market sales to older men,…

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