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Article: FirstAlert(tm) Daily 9/29: A Gay Marriage Day.
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- September 29, 2009
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Sep 29, 2009 (FinancialWire via COMTEX) -- (Comment on this article at http://www.financialwire.net/2009/09/29/firstalerttm-daily-929-a-gay-marriage-day/)
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September 29, 2009 (FinancialWire) (By Philip Holmes) -- Stocks closed higher on Monday as investors took in cheering news about some big M&A activity, including deals by Xerox (NYSE: XRX), Abbott Laboratories (NYSE; ABT) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ).
The Dow Jones industrial average ended the trading session at 9,789.36, up by 124.17 points. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gained 18.60 points, to close at 1,062.98, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 39.82 points, ...