Why light trading this summer is not so worrisome

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NEW YORK (AP) — Someone call a doctor. The stock market just lost its pulse.

Prices are barely moving day to day. Investors are trading far fewer shares than they did last summer. And the future looks equally comatose. The Vix, a sort of crystal ball of stock volatility, recently hit a five-year low.

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