Jobs Back To His Job, Maximum Madoff, Oil Soars
Stocks rallied across the board today on positive reaction to super swindler, Bernie Madoff, receiving the maximum sentence of 150 years in prison. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, returned to his job as CEO after a liver transplant sidelined the originator and public face of the computer giant. An attack on a Nigerian oil platform sent crude soaring above $71.00/barrel today in active trading. The DJIA rallied +90.99 to 8529.38, Nasdaq eased ahead by +5.84 to 1844.06, and the broad based S&P 500 stretched higher by +8.33 to 927.23
Alcoa
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Ball Corp
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Universal American Corp
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JC Penney
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Oil soared $2.33 to $71.47, Gold dropped $0.30 to $940.70 and the fear index VIX gave back 2.24% to 25.35
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