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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks ended higher Monday in a shortened Christmas Eve trading session, aided by flurry of deals which included Alcoa Inc.'s $2.7 billion sale of its packaging and consumer businesses.
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Stocks closed higher Monday afternoon at the end of a half-day of trading on the eve of a Christmas pause, as investors flocked to financial services firms after yet another Wall Street firm announced a big foreign cash investment.
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MAXjet Airways ceased operations on Monday — leaving jets on tarmacs and stranding passengers on Christmas Eve — as the all-business class airline said it would file for bankruptcy protection.
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Maxjet Airways, one of the new breed of business class long-haul airlines, collapsed into bankruptcy on Christmas Eve, stranding hundreds of passengers in the middle of transatlantic holiday journeys
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U.S. stocks opened higher Monday in an abbreviated - and likely light - trading session on Christmas Eve.
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Wall Street stocks were set for a flat start ahead of an abbreviated Christmas Eve trading session with Merrill Lynch's sale of a lending unit the pick of corporate deal news
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U.S. stocks were set to open higher Monday, in what was expected to be a light half-day trading session on Christmas Eve.
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FT.com - Wall Street stocks were set for a flat start on Monday ahead of an abbreviated Christmas Eve trading session with Merrill Lynch's sale of a lending unit the pick of corporate deal news.
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Stocks are set to rise Monday ahead of a shortened Christmas Eve trading session. Markets were higher in Europe and Asia.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Stock market futures help broadly steady ahead of a shortened Christmas Eve trading session Monday, with Alcoa Inc. among the stocks in focus after it agreed to sell its packaging and consumer businesses.
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European shares edged higher in a shortened session on Christmas Eve.
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Britain's top share index has risen in a shortened Christmas Eve trading session as banks regained ground and as generally firmer raw materials prices lifted commodity shares.
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Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are paid days off for 4,300 Santa Barbara County workers as a thank-you for agreeing to concessions in the latest contract deal. Without comment earlier this month, the Board of Supervisors quietly slipped in the two...
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European equity markets moved higher in thin Christmas Eve trading. Leading indices added to Friday's gains, but there was little in the way of dealing, with volumes expected to remain thin as sessions were truncated
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AFP - Europe's main stock markets drifted upwards on Monday, with Frankfurt shut for the Christmas holidays, while London and Paris were set for an early lunchtime finish.
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Reuters - Wall Street was set for a flat start on Monday in a shortened Christmas Eve trading session after an explosive rally on Friday.
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Asian stocks started the week on an upbeat note with Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 tilting higher in a shortened pre-Christmas session as investors bought resource shares after metals prices firmed Friday. In South Korean shares also were higher, led by gains for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.
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Apple's white 120 GB MacBook has captured the top spot on Amazon's list of bestselling computers this Christmas Eve.
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Zuzu stood alone on the snow-covered bridge. Once the toast of Bedford Falls, the bright young manager of the Bailey Hedge Fund stared madly at the frigid black water this Christmas Eve.
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