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 After opening higher stocks have taken a turn for the worse in the last half hour. Investors are worried that prices may have run too far ahead of the economic recovery even as data showed the U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in August...

 U.S. stocks rose to 14-month highs on Monday, helped by news that Abu Dhabi will dole out $10 billion to help Dubai pay its debts and Exxon Mobil Corp's move to buy XTO Energy Inc. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

U.S. stocks were on pace for their biggest decline this year, hurt by soft readings on global economic growth and concern over a looming deadline for Greece's bond swap with private bondholders.   Stocks opened sharply lower and held...

A strengthening dollar and worries about an overheated market pounded stocks says AP.  Stock indexes started higher Monday but turned sharply lower at midmorning as a rebound in the value of the dollar stalled a rally in commodities....

U.S. stocks traded lower as global worries about political turmoil in Greece outweighed a rise in U.S. small-business confidence.   The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index shed 7 points, or 0.5%, to 1362, falling for the fourth day...

  Stocks ended November on a down note Tuesday, notching their first monthly losses since August. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 46 points. It had been down as many as 110 points earlier in the day. The index pared most of its...

U.S. stocks rose, snapping a three- day decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX), as data on jobless claims and manufacturing signaling a strengthening economy overshadowed concern over Europe’s debt crisis.  ...

Canadian stocks were having a strong session Thursday, boosted by a rebound in the U.S. markets and gains in both gold and oil futures.   The S&P/TSX Composite Index (CA:$ISPTX 13,678, +153.04, +1.13%)  rose more than 1%, or...