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5 U.S. Cities Making Big Turnarounds
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Your Career
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3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: May 22
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It Takes More Than Money to Motivate Your Sales Team
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Jim Cramer's Investing Ideas
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Cramer on Retirement: Can Master Limited Partnerships Hurt Your IRA?
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National Top Stories
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Market Preview: Feeling the Fear?
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HP Soars After Earnings Beat, Job Cuts (Update 1)
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Stocks Fight Back in Final Hour
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Facebook Flap Overblown -- Massive Growth Lies Ahead
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Taxes & Regulations
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Super PACs Show Labor for Obama, CEOs for Romney
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Obama vs. Reagan in Five Charts
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Obama's Ad a Brilliant Political Pivot
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Small Business Owners Lukewarm on Obama
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Sports Business
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10 Disasters in Stadium Naming Rights
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Billy Beane: Baseball's Wall Street Super Draft
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Automotive
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How Ford's Credit Upgrade Helps Shareholders
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5 Things You Should Know Before the Stock Market Opens
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10 Cheapest Sports Cars of 2012
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Real Estate
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Europe Aside, U.S. Economy Improving
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10 Summer Beers That Won't Break Your Budget
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Markets
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks staged a mighty comeback in the final hour of trading Wednesday as a message from European leaders in support of Greece assuaged investor fears that the country is on a path to exit the eurozone.
Wall Street was fixated on Europe all day with the region's leaders set to meet in Brussels to discuss latest developments in the region. Indications that eurozone countries were told to prepare contingency plans for a possible exit of the single-currency bloc by Greece and the stern rejection of a proposal to issue eurobonds by Germany, the strongest member of the eurozone, sent the major U.S. equity indices sharply lower for most of the session and led to tumultuous trading across asset classes, most notably pushing the euro toward a two-year low.
But late in the session, reports came that leaders were reaffirming support for Greece at the meeting. A draft statement about the results of the "informal dinner" obtained by Dow Jones reads: "We look forward to the swift formation of a new government that will take ownership of the adjustment program and have a sufficient parliamentary majority to implement with determination the fiscal and structural reforms needed. This is the best guarantee for a more prosperous future of Greece in the euro area."
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