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Relatively flat on its first day back from holiday. a big day on wall street wednesday. newest investors cheered reports on better than expected new home sales and the u.s. federal reserve's decision to leave interest rates unchanged. optimism sent the dow above that psychologically important 12,000 mark early on in the session. the dow and the s&p 500 finished both at their highest levels since 2008 and here's how it looked at the close. the dow gained just 8 points to finish at 11985. so just 15 points shy of that 12,000 mark. and the nasdaq gained 0.74% and the s&p 500 added about 0.5% th...

Guns. a coalition of 400 rabbis published an open letter in this morning's "wall street journal" calling on fox news to sanction host glenn beck for repeated use of nazi and holocaust imagery and for airing attacks on world war ii survivor george soros. and dennis kucinich of ohio is suing a cafeteria after dental injuries he said he suffered after biting into an olive pit he bought there. he's seeking $ 50,000 in damages. here's a first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,985 after adding eight points yesterday. the s&p rose five points. the nasdaq gained ...

Great but these difficult fiscal times, you need to rat out government waste before you spend any more money. >> shep:, wall street great news for the first time, dow jones touched the 12,000 mark. stock index rose above that number in the morning and then again, slipping below it in the final moments of trading. ins the first time since june 2009 that it's been above 12,000 at any point. at the closing bell today, the dow was up 8 points to 11,985. nasdaq was up and so was the s&p 500. the green arrows come after report of sales new homes jumped up 17.5% from november, a strong ending to a ve...