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The coming week will be back-end loaded, with a raft of key survey results for manufacturing and services sector due out on Friday in many of the world's key economic regions.
US consumer confidence weakened a tad towards the beginning of February with the lowest income households the least upbeat, the results of a very closely-followed survey revealed.
The fight against climate should be "mostly good" for the S&P 500, strategists at Bank of America argued, pointing out the gargantuan costs for humanity, even if mostly over the truly long-term, should we fail.
