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November 27, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher again Wednesday morning following a better-than-expected report on new claims for jobless benefits and a slightly worse-than-expected report on...
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November 26, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher again Tuesday morning following a rise in the Case-Shiller house price index and a larger than expected rise in the number of new building permits...
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November 25, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher Monday morning following the agreement reached over the weekend between Iran and a group of six nations including the U.S. that have negotiated to...
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November 22, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened mixed Friday morning with the DJIA opening lower after its record-setting close above 16,000 on Thursday. An interesting JOLTS report from the Labor...
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November 21, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher Thursday morning following a better-than-expected report on new claims for jobless benefits. Fed chair-designate Janet Yellen’s appointment has...
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November 20, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher Wednesday morning and held onto modest gains until the mid-afternoon release of the FOMC minutes. Suggestions that the Fed may begin tapering...
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November 19, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened mixed Tuesday morning as the DJIA was the only index able to eke out a positive start. The rise in the third-quarter employment cost index came in a bit...
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November 18, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher Monday morning with the DJIA briefly topping 16,000 and the S&P 500 rising above 1,800. By mid-afternoon, though, equity prices fell as...
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November 15, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher Friday morning even following a dismal report on the Empire State manufacturing index, a lower-than-expected reading on U.S. industrial...
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November 14, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened mixed Thursday morning as the Nasdaq Composite was weighed down by a weak earnings report after markets closed last night from Cisco Systems Inc....
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November 13, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower again Wednesday morning but investors apparently decided to buy the dip today, raising indexes to the upside later in the day. The Treasury...
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November 12, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower Tuesday morning on another day when no U.S. data of interest was released. Tomorrow looks like another quiet day for U.S. data. Most of the big...
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November 11, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower Monday morning on a day when bond markets were closed in observance of Veterans Day and trading activity was relatively light. No U.S. economic...
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November 8, 2013: U.S. markets opened slightly higher Friday morning after the monthly report on non-farm payrolls showed a larger-than-expected gain. The preliminary report on November consumer...
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November 7, 2013: U.S. markets opened roughly flat Thursday morning ignoring decent economic news today on fewer new jobless claims, coupled with a 2.8% GDP growth rate and a cut to the European...
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