For three months at the beginning of 2012, it seemed like stocks could do no wrong. Now, though, investors seem to be focusing on all the negatives, with a report on factory orders adding to concerns that last Friday's jobs report raised, stoking fear that the U.S. economy may stop expanding. Yet even though the Dow Jones Industrials
Moreover, unlike Friday, some Dow components managed to beat the gloom and rise. Home Depot
Alcoa
Finally, Johnson & Johnson
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