This week Wall Street started off with stocks falling sharply lower, with financials worries coming back to haunt investors as reports of more losses at Lehman Brothers and of a bail-out for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 180 points or 1.5% to 11,479 with all of its 30 [...]

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On Friday U.S. stocks ended mostly higher, with the major indexes finishing with mixed results for the week while crude-oil futures ended lower.
On Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbs nearly 100 points but fall back to finish with a weekly loss of 0.6%. The S&P 500 climbed 5.27 points to close at 1,298.19, ending [...]

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On Wednesday U.S. stocks ended lower, weighed down by a rebound in oil prices and ongoing worries about the financial sector sparked by Merrill Lynch’s downgrades of several banks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 109.5 points to 11,532, with only five of its components finishing in positive territory. The S&P 500 index ended down 3.76 [...]

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