With everyone concerned about the economy, you'd think that good news on the employment front would trigger a big rally in stocks. But even after the Labor Department said that the economy had added 200,000 jobs in December, pushing the unemployment rate down to 8.5%, stocks initially dropped sharply.
But apparently, bullish investors saw the light later in the morning. After falling as much as 80 points during the session, the Dow Jones Industrials
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The biggest loser in the Dow was Alcoa
Among sectors, tech stocks were mixed. Intel
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