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A monitor displays the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 in New York. A government report that hiring improved in July sent stocks sharply higher just after the market opened. The rally lasted less than a half-hour. Many...

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A monitor displays Dow Jones Industrial Average from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 in New York. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 300 points and erased its gains for the year as investors grew more concerned about economic weakness...

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The Dow Jones ticker tape displays news in New York, shortly after US President Barack Obama delivered a statement on the US debt ceiling talks from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, July 29, 2011.

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Employees on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange wear football jerseys, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. The Dow Jones industrial average closed within 100 points of its post-2008 financial crisis peak.

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Felipe Dutra, center, CFO of Anheuser-Busch InBev, gavels the end of trading after ringing the New York Stock Exchange closing bell, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. The Dow Jones industrial average closed within 100 points of its post-2008 financial crisis peak.

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Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton speaks during the World Business Forum in New York in this October 5, 2010 file photo. Hinton, the top executive of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones and Co, resigned after becoming one of the targets of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred...

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A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the the Dow Jones Industrial average November 30, 2011. The Dow posted its best day since March 2009 after the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and other major central banks stepped in to head off escalating funding...

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A screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the point gain of the Dow Jones Industrial average, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. A move by the world's central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring...

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Traders pass by a screen that displays the closing tally for the Dow Jones Industrial Average after the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange November 28, 2011. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 291.23 points, or 2.59 percent, at 11,523.01, rebounded from seven...

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A man walks past an electronic board showing the Nikkei stock and Dow Jones averages outside a brokerage in Tokyo November 28, 2011. The Nikkei average climbed almost 2 percent on Monday, helped by climbs in U.S. stock futures and by a report that the International Monetary Fund was...

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A board shows the Dow Jones Industrial average after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange June 10, 2011.

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CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 27: Traders work in the Dow Jones Industrial average futures pit as Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke is shown on a large television screen at the CME Group in Chicago on April 27, 2011. Bernanke held his first-ever news conference following the Federal Reserve Open...

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A television displays the Dow Jones Industrial Average shortly after opening on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 18, 2011. U.S. stocks slid on Monday, with the Nasdaq falling 2 percent, after ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut its long-term outlook on the United States...

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Updates Dow Jones close to reflect the settler figure at 5:49 p.m. which matches the later Market Brief graphic. Market charts show Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq.

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The Times Square Dow Jones News Ticker March 22, 2011 in New York flashes the headline about the US F-15 jet that crashed in Libya late Monday while enforcing a no-fly zone. The US Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, said the aircraft had experienced equipment malfunction over...

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A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones Industrial average, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. Wall Street focused Wednesday on the bleak landscape ahead for the economy and sold off, wiping out the big gains from a day earlier and then some.

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A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the Dow Jones Industrial average at the close of trading, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.

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An electronic billboard shows a graph of trading throughout the day and the Dow Jones Industrial Average figures just after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange August 8, 2011. US stocks plummeted more than five percent on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing...

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People relax outside the stock exchange Monday, August 8, 2011, in New York, after the Dow Jones industrials closed down 634 points, or 5.5 percent, to 10,809. It was the first time the Dow fell below 11,000 since November and its biggest one-day point drop since December 2008.

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Graphic charts both the 2008 and 2011 eight-day-drop of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 13: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 13, 2012 in New York City. As fears grow over possible credit rating downgrades for eurozone countries, The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 49 points, or 0.4%.

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A man walks past an electronic board displaying falls in Japan's Nikkei share average (L) and the Dow Jones Industrial average outside a brokerage in Tokyo July 29, 2011. Tokyo stocks fell on Friday, losing ground for a third straight day as the deadlock over raising the U.S. debt...

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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 3: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the first trading session of 2012 on January 3, 2012 in New York City. The Federal Reserve announced that it will begin to publish a forecast of its own interest rate forecasts. The Dow...

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Traders work at the Euronext center on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the first day of trading for the new year, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 200 points in the first minutes of trading, as solid economic news, notably out of China, is...

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Peter Tuchman, a trader with Quattro M Securities, works from a handheld computer during the first day of trading at the New York Stock Market on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 200 points, or 1.7 percent, to 12,423 in the first minutes of trading Tuesday.