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Wood spoke to Grist on the phone from a public park on a Friday in early August, a week when the city declared a heat emergency; going into the weekend, the National Weather Service warned of heat indices that could reach the low 100s F. "Everyone kind of has their own strategy" for surviving the heat, said Wood.

“Any small change in their habits ends up affecting these health indices,” says Dr Eid.

Over the past five years, single-family home prices have risen about 54% nationally, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

The commodities markets, which were originally limited to trading futures contracts for traditional commodities such as crops, livestock and precious metals, have steadily grown to encompass more abstract “commodities” such as futures on stock market indices.

More than $11.2 trillion in investments were benchmarked to the S&P 500 at the end of 2019, according to estimates from S&P Dow Jones Indices.