TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday
Buyers returned to the markets with a vengeance on the final day of a holiday-shortened trading week, sending the major indexes up by more than 3%.
The Dow ended the day up 246.27. The Nasdaq Composite added 61.88. And the S&P 500 finished higher by 31.40.
Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday.
Both Bank of America
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Shares of Wal-Mart
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Gapping higher at the open and closing up more than 47% was Textron Inc.
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