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Corporate earnings are getting outsize attention because of the weekslong government shutdown, which has halted the normal flow of data that helps inform Wall Street on the economy’s direction.

This means daily losses have an outsize impact on returns over time.

The outsize gains attracted attention on social media, and thrill-seeking individual investors began to pile in at a pace never seen before for a leveraged single-stock fund.

Lowering the cost of drug development would foster more innovation, more therapeutic alternatives, more competition and lower prices for new drugs, which wouldn’t need to return outsize profits to pay for high development costs.

The auto industry is digesting a new and potentially damaging supply-chain disruption from an unlikely source: a small Dutch semiconductor manufacturer with an outsize influence on how cars and trucks are made.