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Raul Rodriguez sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011.
msnbc.com staff and news services reports:
Stocks rocketed Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it was joining other major central banks in injecting more money into the global financial system.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time Since Nov. 15.
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before the Closing Bell in New York, New York, November 1. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 300 points on concerns about Greece's acceptance of a proposed solution to that country's debt problems.
Here we go again.
msnbc.com's news services report:
A wave of selling hit Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would let the Greek people vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue the nation’s economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed the day down 297 points having seen a 321-point deficit at the session’s low. As stocks tumbled, a widely-watched gauge of investor fear, the VIX index, jumped some 25 percent, chalking up its biggest daily gain since mid-August.
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