Share Prices
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Well, the simple explanation might be that yesterday's [blank] drop in share prices pretty much across the board has created what market analysts like to call a buying opportunity. It tends to bring out investors to pick through the ruins, looking for [blank] . Decision by investors that sellers got a little carried away with things so the buyers have [blank] all the major indexes today. The Dow, the NASDAQ, the S&P 500 were all up around half a percent in early trading today, and that wasn't a big surprise. The sell-off continued somewhat [blank] European markets remain fairly weak, along with many of the Asian markets. But you'll remember that all this started with a big [blank] of around 9 percent on the stock market in Shanghai. Well, Chinese rebounded by around 4 percent.
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