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Friday, March 13, 2009

Temple Terrace - Dow Opens Higher as Banks Rally - CNBC

Stocks opened slightly higher Friday amid some much-needed good news from banks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened with a modest gain, though there was enough red on the board, particularly in the tech sector, to set the Nasdaq off on negative Russia NEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 stock indexes opened higher Friday after Citigroup said it did not need any more government capital infusions. * Profit taking in technology stocks kept the Nasdaq near break even. * The Dow Russia NEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow industrials and S&P 500 stock indexes rose Friday after preliminary March data showed U.S. consumer sentiment rose, beating analyst expectations. * Consumer sentiment was also boosted after Citigroup told Reuters it did Russia NEWS

In the first few minutes of trading Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 12 points to 7,182. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up less than 1 point to 751, while the Nasdaq composite index is down 4 to 1,421. Russia NEWS

NEW YORK — Investors have been clamoring for months for a bit of good news. On Thursday, they got a load of it. The Dow Jones industrials shot up 240 points, bringing its gains over the past three days to 622 points. It was the index’s biggest Russia NEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 opened higher on Friday after Citigroup said it did not need any more government capital infusions. Profit taking in technology stocks kept the Nasdaq near break even. The Dow Jones industrial Russia NEWS

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