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• Jobs report lifts Dow to highest mark since '08
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• Hot start: Dow and S&P have best January since '97
• Stocks and bond yields drop on Europe worries

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Harold Bubil

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  Agents say buyers are pouring in

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J. Robert Parkinson

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• In expense accounts, as in life, never think you are entitled
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• Will 2012 be a truly new year, or just a recycled year for you?

Lauren Rudd

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