State and local policy. California insurance rates and Texas zoning move national companies.
What to watch: State taxes; minimum wages; insurance regulation; zoning. It arrives annual, and the effect typically lasts years.
It sits in tier 4 — Stock and sector specific: Moves one company or one group, not the market. Any factor here becomes tier one if it gets large enough — a bank failure and a pandemic both started as somebody's sector news.
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