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Wells Fargo said Monday evening that it would repay the entire $25 billion that it received in the government's bailout last year. It said some of the money would come from a $10.4 billion stock sale.

Investors were relieved to see Abu Dhabi's $10 billion rescue of Dubai, while acquisition plans announced by Exxon Mobil helped lift the energy sector.

Wall Street shares were slightly lower as investors tried to assess the fallout from Dubai’s debt crisis as well as retail sales from the kickoff of the Christmas shopping season.

World stock markets fell sharply Thursday as investors fretted over the debt problems at Dubai World, a government investment company, and the continued fall in the dollar.

Stocks climbed, led by the materials and energy sectors as commodities prices rose and the dollar fell.

Parsing an economic puzzle. Recently the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed the psychologically significant 10,000 mark. This is an impressive feat for an index that was trading in the 6,000 range less than nine months ago.

Remember the trend -- it's not always a friend of this approach.

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.

Stocks struggled after a quartet of blue-chip companies reported generally strong earnings but weak revenue, reinforcing investors' jitters about persistent weakness on the demand side of the global economy.

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