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February 5, 2012 12:59 AM EST
Investors started the day in a better mood after Wednesday’s upside reversal was greeted with a better-than-expected dip in Weekly Jobless Claims. Last week showed a decline of 31,000 to 473,000. The prior week was revised to a reading of 504,000. Expectations were for a small dip to 490,000, but this is significant. Over the previous two months, estimates had been holding in the 450,000 to 460,000 area. Even as the weekly data failed to compl... full story >>