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Italy's 40% windfall tax on banks' net interest income, and Moody's Monday downgrade of several U.S. banks were not helping investor sentiment either. China's imports and exports fell much faster than expected in July, data on Tuesday showed, with imports down 12.4% year-on-year, missing a forecast fall of 5% in a Reuters poll and off a 6.8% decline in June. Parsing the export data, David Chao, global market strategist at Invesco, says the miss was driven by lower prices rather than lower volumes, and that Chinese export volumes remain surprisingly robust.

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Holding off for that long. obviously bernanke is not going to come out and say just that, but the market will be listening very closely to anything that the statement says that would allude to these better-than-expected numbers. there's still a debate as to whether gdp is growing. retail sales were up 1.1%. the strongest gain since last september. we also heard from small businesses. the national association of small business out with its optimism survey and that showed the biggest jump in a year so basically the trend feels like things have been getting a little bit better. >> the only thing ...