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PARIS (Reuters) – Stock futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0. 1 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0. 2 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0. 1 percent at 5:20 a. m. EDT. * European stocks were up on Thursday morning, with a number of benchmark indexes hitting their highs for the year, boosted by hopes a U. S. budget deal will be reached before the year-end and that the worst of Europe’s debt crisis might be over. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A volatile trading session ended with U. S. stocks mostly higher on Wednesday, even as Apple, the most valuable company in the United States, suffered its worst day of losses in almost four years. In a strange occurrence, Apple accounted for the entirety of the Nasdaq 100’s fall of 1. 1 percent, while the Dow industrials – which do not include Apple as a component – enjoyed the best day since November 28. With the drop, Apple shed nearly $35 billion in market capitalization, its biggest one-day market-cap loss ever. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A volatile trading session ended with stocks mostly higher on Wednesday, even as Apple, the most valuable company in the United States, suffered its worst day of losses in almost four years. In a strange occurrence, Apple accounted for the entirety of the Nasdaq 100’s fall of 1. 1 percent, while the Dow industrials – which do not include Apple as a component – enjoyed the best day since November 28. With the drop, Apple shed nearly $35 billion in market capitalization, its biggest one-day market-cap loss ever. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks opened little changed on Wednesday as a 15-percent drop in shares of Freeport-McMoRan following acquisition announcements offset optimism about a global economic recovery spurred by comments from China’s new leader. The Dow Jones industrial average added 16. 20 points, or 0. 13 percent, to 12,967. 98. The S&P 500 edged up 0. 50 points, or 0. 04 percent, to 1,407. 55. The Nasdaq Composite dipped 3. 95 points, or 0. 13 percent, to 2,992. 73. (Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is set to announce a fresh round of Treasury bond purchases when it meets next week, avoiding monetary policy tightening to maintain support for the weak U. S. economy amid uncertainty over the looming year-end "fiscal cliff. " Many economists think the U. S. central bank will announce monthly bond purchases of $45 billion after its policy gathering on December 11-12, signaling it will continue to pump money into the U. S. economy during 2013 in a bid to bring down unemployment. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks finished slightly lower in a quiet session on Tuesday as the back-and-forth wrangling over the "fiscal cliff" gave investors little reason to act. Trading volume was light as legislators continue to negotiate a deal to avoid a $600 billion package of tax hikes and federal spending cuts that would begin January 1 and could push the economy into recession. Just 5. 86 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, below the year’s daily average of 6. 48 billion shares. A key measure of investor anxiety has remained muted. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks were little changed on Tuesday as the market awaited developments in negotiations in Washington to avert a "fiscal cliff" that could push the U. S. economy into recession. Republicans in Congress proposed steep spending cuts to bring down the budget deficit on Monday but gave no ground on President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and the proposal was quickly dismissed by the White House. The market has been subject to swings in reaction to the proposals floated so far by politicians. . . .

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(Reuters) – Cerberus Capital Management LP is in talks to join Virtu Financial LLC’s bid for U. S. brokerage Knight Capital Group Inc , the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. Virtu and rival electronic trading firm Getco Holding Co have made competing bids for the Jersey City, N. J. -based Knight, valuing the company at a minimum of $1. 1 billion. Knight was made vulnerable to a takeover this summer when a trading glitch left it nearly bankrupt before a group of investors stepped in with $400 million in emergency capital. . . .

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian shares slipped on Tuesday after a plunge in U. S. manufacturing activity hit American stocks and the dollar, while the euro hovered near a six-week high on optimism over Greece’s plan to buy back debt. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0. 3 percent to 450. 79, backing away from a nine-month high reached on Monday. Australian shares eased 0. 5 percent, while Japan’s benchmark Nikkei share average fell 0. 2 percent, declining further from a seven-month intraday high of 9,525. 82 struck on Monday. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks struggled to extend the previous week’s gains, dropping on Monday as disappointing U. S. factory numbers dampened optimism about China’s economic growth. The declines broke a three-day streak of gains for the S&P 500, keeping it shy of its 50-day moving average of about 1,420, a level that the index has been below since October 22, and now serving as a key resistance point for investors. Manufacturing activity in the United States surprisingly contracted in November, the Institute for Supply Management said, dropping to its lowest level in more than three years. . . .

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