Wall Street heads north

02 September 2010 - What a difference a day makes, especially when the doomsday merchants are brought to book by hard data. And even the Yanks got into the better economic readings, with manufacturing continuing to defy the double dip pessimists, helping the S&P 500 index to rack up its best percentage move since 7 July. The broad market index put on over 30 points to get to an important level of 1080 which... read the full article ›

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