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U.S. stocks rose and the dollar fell after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Chair Jerome Powell signaled the central bank would keep policy “somewhat accommodative.” The S&P 500 halted a two-day slide and the 10-year Treasury rate fell below 1.8%. 

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Here are today’s top stories

U.S. stocks have barely budged this week, but the calm in equities contrasts with a frenzied bout of hedging in options markets.

The U.K. vote will determine whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson stays in office or Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn takes over at 10 Downing Street. Here’s how it all works.

Goldman Sachs employees assailed a scheduled appearance by Nikki Haley at the firm’s New York offices after the former South Carolina governor’s comments about the Confederate flag. The Republican said the flag, which represented slave states defeated in the Civil War and is used by white supremacists, is a symbol to some of “service, sacrifice and heritage.” 

Senate Republicans say there’s an early consensus building within their ranks for a short trial that could see the GOP-led chamber vote on a likely acquittal of President Donald Trump if he is impeached by the House.

Silicon Valley is listening to your most intimate moments. Bloomberg Businessweek reports how the world’s biggest companies got millions of people to let temps analyze some very sensitive recordings.

China is curing cancer faster and cheaper than anywhere else, as looser rules are being considered for experimental therapies.

What’s Sid Verma thinking about? The Bloomberg cross-asset editor says investors received notice this week that the U.K. election is very much up for grabs.  

What you’ll need to know tomorrow

• Meet the bankers who broke Aramco’s $2 trillion bubble.
• The top 10 companies to work at don’t include Google or Facebook.
• Ken Griffin has another money machine.
• Glimmers of hope appear for Brazil’s toxic water problem.
• Bloomberg Opinion: Trump’s China tariffs boomerang on America.
• Home Depot says the opioid crisis is behind a rise in store thefts.
• Roku built the dominant streaming box, but now it’s under siege.

What you’ll want to read in Bloomberg Hyperdrive

Vancouver-based Harbour Air flew an all-electric commercial aircraft—for five minutes. The neon green and indigo blue seaplane took off from the Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia, Tuesday morning as a crowd cheered from the dock. It was a small but significant step in the quest to replace fossil fuel-powered aircraft, a mode of transport increasingly viewed through the prism of climate change.

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