These Stocks Couldn’t Hold the Dow Back Today: Hewlett-Packard Co

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It's generally a mark of strength for the stock market when stocks start out slowly and then build up to gains later in the day. That's exactly how things turned out today, as the market sold off despite reasonably encouraging economic data. During the last hour or so of trading, though, the Dow Jones Industrials broke through the breakeven level and ended up posting a 28-point gain. The S&P 500 similarly rose by a small amount, and small caps posted even stronger performance, with the Russell 2000 index rising nearly half a percent.

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