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Data Dive: What a quarter point costs you

If you have the average amount of credit card debt, the Fed's decision to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point could cost you about $3.50 extra a month in interest charges. Keep that debt going over 5 years, and it'll cost you about $200 - or more, since the Fed already signaled that there may be more rate hikes on the way in 2017.

Data Dive: Lockheed falls victim to the Trump Tweet Factor

Trump Tweet Factor: A company's stock move after it becomes the target of the President-elect's often bilious policy musings over Twitter. The pattern, so far, seems to repeat itself in a fairly consistent way: President-Elect attacks on Twitter; investors jump ship to varying degrees; and then reasonable thought (or wishful thinking) returns and everything seems to revert to something like normal.

Data Dive: Advice to the next secretary of state: Stay home

As President Barack Obama’s tenure draws to a close, Washington is turning its attention to one of its silliest traditions: toting up the travel statistics of the outgoing secretary of state, as if miles traveled correlated to diplomatic achievement.

Oil firms and carmakers diverge in costly debate

LONDON Many carmakers are predicting a significant shift to electric vehicles in the next decade. Advances in battery technology and the growth of autonomous driving and ride sharing - suited to electric vehicles - will power this expansion, they reason.