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Business Insider’s personal finance team compared Citizens Bank savings accounts to the best high-yield savings accounts and found them to be a standard offering. Most of the accounts don’t offer high rates, although they also tend to be low on fees.

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Stocks sold off on Friday as new U.S. data sparked concern among investors over a slowing economy and sticky inflation, leading them in search of safer assets.

Losses increased into the close as traders feared staying long into a weekend that could bring another barrage of headlines from the Trump administration,

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US stocks fell sharply at the closing bell Friday as the uncertainty surrounding tariffs and the possibility of a slowing economy caught up to investors, igniting fresh rounds of selling and renewing concerns of a market correction.

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) shed 1.7%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) lost over 2%,

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Stocks tumbled on Friday after weaker-than-expected economic reports suggested that President Trump’s policies could be impacting U.S. business activity, while consumer sentiment dropped to a 15-month low.

Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 1.7% on Friday, marking their worst one-day declines since December 18, according to financial data firm FactSet.

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Stocks headed steadily lower throughout Friday’s session, pressured by disappointing economic data. A round of negative earnings reactions weighed on the main benchmarks, too, with all three ending the day and the week with notable losses.

It was a busy morning on the economic calendar. Shortly after the open,

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