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Yahoo! Finance
09-04-2009, 11:11 AM
<b>Yahoo! Finance: Commodity News</b>

A mixed report on job losses and unemployment for August is nudging stocks higher. Stocks are gaining following a Labor Department report showing a slower pace of job losses but also an increase in the nation's unemployment rate to 9.7 percent -- the highest since June 1983.

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