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S&P 500 has best 8-day gain since 2009Posted by RJ and Makay on Sep 01, 2011 |
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With yesterday’s rise in U.S. stocks, the Standard and Poor’s 500 index had its best eight-day gain since 2009, on speculation that the U.S. economy will keep expanding. The S&P 500 was up 8.5% from August 19 through August 31, and yesterdays 74.89 gain in the Dow Jones Industrials erased the year-to-date decline in the Dow.
