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By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are holding relatively steady on Tuesday as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve will say on Wednesday about where interest rates are heading.

The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early trading, coming off just its second loss in the last 11 days . The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 145 points, or 0.3%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower.

CVS Health jumped to one of the market’s bigger gains after unveiling new financial projections, including annual compounded growth in earnings per share at a “mid-teens” percentage over the next three years.

“We are committed to doing what we say,” said Chief Financial Off

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