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Stocks advanced Monday, after a three-day losing streak, as investors cheered a wave of merger-and-acquisition activity.
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Apple shares [AAPL
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Tech stocks were mostly higher, with the Nasdaq outperforming the broader indexes, but Research In Motion [RIMM
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Johnson & Johnson [JNJ
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GenTek shares [GETI
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Kraft [KFT
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In a separate interview with the Sunday Times, Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfield said Cadbury CEO Todd Stitzer had failed to "do the math quite accurately" after he claimed Cadbury's own growth strategy would deliver superior returns compared to Kraft's cash and stock offer.
The dollar fell to an 8-month low against the yen in early hours after Japanese officials initially waved off any plans to stem the yen's rise. But later, Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said that he never approved of a strong yen.
In other corporate news, Bank of America [BAC
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Goldman Sachs [GS
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