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Reaction to last week's employment report translates into stock market gains as service sector, real estate also report upbeat news.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will begin selling the stake it owns in Citigroup Inc., which could result in a profit to the government of about $7.5 billion. Government received 7.7B shares in exchange for $25B it gave the banking firm during credit crisis.

U.S. stocks opened higher, led by the material and energy sectors following the report of a small increase in personal spending and benign inflation.

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The former chief executive of American International Group Inc, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, reached a deal to sell most of the shares he holds in the insurer to a unit of Swiss bank UBS.

The stock market continued its advance of the past month after the Fed said it would keep interest rates low to revive the economy.

Americans regained more of their shrunken wealth last quarter, mainly because the economy boosted stock portfolios.

This morning, JMP Securities upgraded shares of Yahoo! from market perform to outperform citing its new deal with Microsoft. The firm sees their search partnership helping drive better results for Yahoo! in the coming quarters. With the upgrade, JMP set a price target of $21 per share.

U.S. stocks rose broadly, with investors encouraged by a government report that job losses were less than expected in February.