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By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy. Uncertainty has defined financial markets this year. It’s not going away because the source of ...

Next year, the IMF sees the U.S. economy growing 1.7% ... on top of it has markets understandably jittery," said Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial.

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