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February 5, 2012 12:42 AM EST
Financials may have been down, but that hasn’t stopped the market from kicking them. The weak Euro, which I’ll get into, was one catalyst weighing on the sector. However, there were two individual company news items that hit the stocks, putting pressure on the ETF, leading the market lower. Goldman Sachs GS (-2.5%) was a major contributor, after receiving a subpoena from the ... full story >>