Like the state of the whole U.S. economy, the stock market last week was something of a puzzle. At week's beginning it continued the decline of the previous week in a heavy sell-off that pared 16 points from the Dow-Jones industrial average in three days of heavy trading.
Then it turned around and headed upward, at week's end staged a rally that pushed the industrials up 9.55 pointsto 580.14in the biggest one-day gain in nine weeks.
Bull or Bear? Was this the end of the slide, or only a breather in the midst of a big bear market? Sidney Lurie of...
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