How the Dow Jones industrials fared Monday (AP)

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How the Dow Jones industrials fared Monday
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<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginAP - Investors fixated on the faltering economy Monday brushed off the type of merger news that normally starts rallies. Uneasiness about the economy eclipsed a bounce in troubled financial stocks as well as news of a merger between drugmakers Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp. Stocks rose in the early going but turned lower in a now familiar pattern where short-lived bursts of optimism give way to concerns about the country's economic woes.</p><br clear="all"/>


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