The stock market’s big 2006 advance gave a boost to more than investment portfolios - it fueled a frenzied pace of mergers and acquisitions, with hedge funds and private equity shops sending the total value of …
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Original post by News.findlaw.com

U.S. stock indexes fell in the year’s final day of trading Friday, but the Dow Jones industrial average still finished its best year since 2003.
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Original post by Political Gateway

For mutual fund investors, 2006 was a year to sink cash into some of Wall Street’s lumbering giants and shy away from the kind of glitzy stocks that fuelled the dot-com boom.
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Original post by CBC News

From Tokyo to Shanghai to Bombay, Asian stock markets have surged to record highs as investors race to cash in on China’s boom and stocks elsewhere are boosted by stronger corporate profits and lower barriers …
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Original post by The Jersey Journal

Stocks closed the last trading day of 2006 near their session lows, but the modest selling pressure couldn’t put a dent in what has been a very successful year overall for the bulls.
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Original post by WHP-AM Harrisburg

Wall Street staged a mild retreat Friday, quietly closing out a year that will be remembered for the stock market’s great comeback _ a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 for the …
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Original post by The Associated Press on Topix.net

Wall Street slipped Friday in the last trading day of a year most will remember for the stock market’s great comeback _ pulling off a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 for the …
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Original post by The Associated Press on Topix.net

Wall Street was narrowly mixed Friday in the last trading day of a year most will remember for the stock market’s great comeback _ pulling off a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 …
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Original post by The Associated Press on Topix.net

London stocks fell Friday in line with a declining oil price. Bearing the brunt of the falls were oil companies, chief among them BP, Vedanta, and Shell.
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Original post by North Korean News.Net

Wall Street marched higher Friday in the last trading day of a year most will remember for the’s stock market’s great comeback - pulling off a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 …
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Original post by Alaska Journal of Commerce