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📊 Alain’s Holdings — September 14, 2026 Symbol Name Price Change Change % VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 699.30 -3.26 -0.46% QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust 709.18 -5.70 -0.80% XIU.TO iShares S&P/TSX 60 ETF 53.03 +0.11 +0.21% Wall Street started one of the most important weeks of the month on the…

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Wall Street had a rough week as $100-plus oil, stubborn inflation and a bond-market selloff forced investors to reconsider one of the most important assumptions behind this year’s bull market: that interest rates were finished going higher. The major indexes fell for the week: 📉 Dow Jones: -1.6%📉 S&P 500:…