If the U.S. government temporarily misses a debt payment while promising to make bondholders whole as soon as the debt limit was raised, 10-year note yields would rise about 37 bp, according to the average estimate of 45 JPMorgan Chase (JPM) clients that it surveyed.

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Start with your day-to-day spending - keep an accurate note of everything you spend for a whole month.

BBC: Fergus Muirhead

Working with 400 school children aged between nine and 11, the team assigned whole classrooms either to perform and note down three kind acts per week or - as a control group - to keep a diary of three locations they visited each week.

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