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Construction spending in September posted a better-than-expected performance, powered by the largest jump in housing construction in more than six years.

Signs that manufacturing in the United States was on a path to recovery sent stocks upward on the first trading day after one of the steepest plunges in months.

The government reported that output of goods and services grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate, which was faster than expected. But it will be months before job-seekers feel the benefits.

Strong earnings from JPMorgan, Intel and others push up the blue-chip index in midday trading. The Dow Jones industrial average finally got back above 10,000 today -- briefly -- as banking and technology sectors did their best to move it above that psychological barrier.

General Motors Co. said Friday it set a sales record in China in September and total sales for the first nine months of the year rose 55 percent to nearly 1.3 million vehicles.

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless insurance hit a nine-month low last week and retailers reported their first monthly sales gain in over a year on Thursday, easing fears that recovery from recession would be unsustainable.

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The U.S. service sector grew in September for the first time in 13 months, an encouraging sign for the fledgling economic recovery although jobs remain scarce.

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday declared that a global economic recovery has begun led by Asia, also cautioning that the strength of the rebound depended on a rebalancing of global growth.

US manufacturing output grew in September for the second consecutive month, a new survey suggests.