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I don’t want to make too much of this, but it was a pretty good day for stocks, considering all the negative stuff the markets had to deal with. Consider:
1) Oil up despite dollar strength.
2) Hewlett [HPQ
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3) Wal-Mart [WMT
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4) Oppenheimer lowered earnings on brokers.
5) Fed officials were saying that a quick rebound was unlikely; bonds moved down.
Despite all this, we were basically flat.
And: the largest insurer in the world raised a heck of a lot of money. AIG [AIG
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