Market Update
_____ 4:20 pm : Stocks rallied Monday and closed at session highs as a wave of deal making on the first day of July restored investor confidence following a drop in M&A activity last month. All 10 economic sectors finished sharply higher while the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq rose 1.05% on average. After weeks without the typical Monday morning merger news that had helped so many indices hit all-time highs during the first half of the year, a flurry of big-ticket deals today helped quell the worst of fears that the private-equity buyout party was over. Market Overview <http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5eIXIC&t=1d&c=> NASDAQ Composite Index (^IXIC) <http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5eDJI&t=1d&c=> Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (^DJI) Symbol Last Change Dow <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EDJI> 13,535.43 Up126.81 (0.95%) Nasdaq <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EIXIC> 2,632.30 Up29.07 (1.12%) S <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EGSPC> &P 500 1,519.43 Up16.08 (1.07%) 10-Yr <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5ETNX> Bond 4.9980% Down0.0350 NYSE <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5ETV.N> Volume 2,589,077,000 Nasdaq <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5ETV.O> Volume 1,854,574,000 Indices: US <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/finhome/usindices/*http:/finance.yahoo.com/i ndices?e=dow_jones> - World <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/finhome/worldindices/*http:/finance.yahoo.co m/intlindices?e=americas> | Most <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/finhome/mostactives/*http:/finance.yahoo.com /actives?e=o> Actives Advances & Declines NYSE NASDAQ Advances 2,585 (77%) 1,996 (64%) Declines 658 (20%) 1,029 (33%) Unchanged 105 (3%) 115 (4%) Up Vol* 2,173 (84%) 1,327 (72%) Down Vol* 389 (15%) 500 (27%) Unch. Vol* 27 (1%) 28 (2%) New Hi's 206 203 New Lo's 50 73
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