"If you look at the standard of League One and League Two, it's becoming higher and higher, " the former Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City player told BBC Sport.

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But once Facebook went public, "they had to start thinking much more about becoming a business, and as a business, a higher percentage of the feed had to be about ads, " Mr. O'Malley said.

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And those higher gas prices in a way are becoming a proxy, unfortunately, for how they feel about the economy.

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Clearly, technology stocks have been leading the market higher, and if the financial stocks are now becoming a leading sector it may help push the market to significant new high.

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The chances of becoming pregnant were higher among women younger than 20, foreign-born Hispanic women and women with less than a high school diploma.

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Evidence from Europe suggests that long spells of high joblessness leave a country's underlying unemployment rate permanently higher, as workers lose skills, becoming detached from the labour force and increasingly hard to re-employ.

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Renting is becoming a more popular practice, and certain locations may have a surprisingly low vacancy rate which translates into higher rent for you.

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