Stocks Open Higher on Merrill Asset Sale
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Wall Street rose moderately in early trading, boosted by news that Merrill Lynch will receive an investment of up to $6.2 billion from two investment groups.
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European equities opened higher on Thursday as banking and insurance stocks benefited from some solid results, while rallying oil prices lifted the energy sector.
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Stocks opened higher on Tuesday as oil  prices fell by nearly a dollar and several companies raised  quarterly profit forecasts amid a brighter mood on Wall Street  after a long holiday weekend.
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Wall Street stocks rose on Monday after Merrill Lynch announced a capital injection of up to $6.2bn, spurring a rally in financial stocks at the start of an abbreviated Christmas-Eve trading session.
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Stocks extended gains in mid-afternoon trade on Tuesday, lifting the S&P 500 index more than 1 percent, after reassuring data on the economy and amid optimism about the outlook for technology spending.
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Stocks headed for a higher open on Thursday, buoyed by a government report suggesting strength in the labor market and optimism about government and central bank efforts to boost the economy.
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Stock index futures rose on Monday, lifted by news Merrill Lynch  plans to sell a lending unit and with investors eyeing retailers as the busy holiday shopping season draws to a close.
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Wall Street headed toward a sharply higher opening Monday, after solid preliminary results from IBM emboldened investors to buy back into the stock market after last week's rout.
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U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday, with beaten down shares offering bargains to investors and oil producer stocks bolstered by crude oil prices breaking through the &#36;50 a barrel mark.
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U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, extending a rebound from last week's sharp sell-off, as investors snapped up financial shares and strong monthly sales from key retailers overshadowed concerns about the subprime mortgage lending market.
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Stocks rose on Monday, after Merrill  Lynch  said it was getting a big foreign investment and  with investors eyeing retailers as the busy holiday shopping  season draws to a close.
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U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday,  clawing back from Monday's losses, as oil prices held below $42  a barrel and a quiet Wall Street awaited December consumer  confidence data for direction.
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Wall Street opened higher on Tuesday after Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, offered to take over $800bn in municipal bonds currently insured by bond insurers Ambac, MBIA (NYSE:MBI) and FGIC.
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Wall Street stocks rose on Friday after strong results from Research (NASDAQ:RIMM) In Motion provided a boost to the technology sector and on reports that Merrill Lynch may get a multi-billion dollar capital infusion from Singapore.
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Wall Street was higher after a better-than-expected profit report at Research in Motion and on word that Merrill Lynch might have lined up a  cash infusion from a Singapore fund.
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Stocks opened higher on Tuesday as another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve this week seemed likely, while data showing a higher-than-expected rise in orders of durable goods last month eased some economic worries.
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U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday  after two separate reports showed inflationary pressure was  held in check in July and U.S. housing starts rebounded sharply  in the same month.