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This weekend's Barron's offers a look at why 2017 could be the year of the stockpicker. The prospects for an industrial products distributor and a tiny but hot Chinese reverse-merged company. Other featured articles offer looks at a "Facebook for stockpickers," and a shrinking private equity stake...

U.S. stocks rose sharply after minutes from the Federal Reserve eased concerns over when the central bank would raise interest rates. The decision to let go of the 6.5 percent unemployment rate threshold for raising interest rates was finalized in early March. Additionally, the Fed's minutes...