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0922_biz_wire_markets.jpg Today’s top headlines 9:24 a.m. U.S. GDP for third quarter comes in at robust 4.9% The nation’s economy expanded at a robust 4.9 per cent annual rate from July through September as Americans defied higher prices, rising interest rates and widespread forecasts of a recession to spend at a brisk pace. The United States Commerce Department said the economy expanded last quarter at the fastest pace in more than two years — and more than twice the 2.1 per cent annual rate of the previous quarter. Thursday’s report on the nation’s gross domestic product — the economy’s total output...