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U.S. stocks closed slightly higher in languid trading on Wednesday, with little market-moving news to fuel conviction as the S&P 500 hovered just below bull market confirmation.

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Start." its money time this morning. stock future its are stronger than a better than expected earnings report from apple. also, another record high on wall street tuesday. the dow industrials finishing at a closing high, the 28th this year. 28 closing highs this year. the dow finishing with a gain. the nasdaq and s&p closing lower. now the details on apples earnings. turns out that iphone demand was better than wall street thought. apple sold more than 31 million last year. look, they were pr...

Vision in yellow. >> poppy harlow business rules. >> mixed earnings alcoas earnings came out after the close. major markets finishing higher across the board. the dow, s&p 500, less than 2% below an all-time closing high, meantime news out of barnes & noble, the ceo is out, william lynch resigned yesterday after three years at the helm of the ailing book seller. the nook sales fell 34% the company lost $118 last quarter. credit cardholders you are becoming much more responsible about paying yo...

In todays money minute, lets take a look at the markets right now. the dow and the s&p 500, ever closer now to the record highs with the dow jones up by 56. the s&p up by 7. and the nasdaq up by 20. but green arrows across the board, very strong closing out the week. it is an all-time high that was set back on october 19th of 2007, the s&p is about 63 points from the closing high that was also set back on october the 9th of 2007. something to watch there. meantime, this is treasury secretary t...

Facility in china where its iphones are assembled. google hit a closing high. different story at facebook which dropped 9% after a weekend report that said the stock remains too pricey. thats it from cnbc. we are first in business worldwide, and now back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." conservatives swoon for congressman paul ryan when he was chosen for the republican ticket, but hes since played the classic role of second fiddle. moderating his positions on both fiscal and cultural...

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The largest since november of 2008, three years ago, and on the year the dow was off more than 16 percent from its closing high, that was back in april, around 12,800. some say bear market, were there. martha: boy, you know, well see what happens. weve got about 20 minutes before the market opens up, but it is looking starkly lower this morning, and that is just some of the stuff were keeping on top of for you today in "americas newsroom", and also, there is this. pilots, beware, youve got that ...

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