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A wave of political uncertainty in Europe spread through financial markets Tuesday, pushing U.S. stocks sharply lower.

Stocks are closing lower after investors were rattled by mixed economic data and concerns about Europe.

U.S. stocks are ending the day mixed as investors weighed troubling jobs reports.

U.S. stocks are closing sharply higher after promising signals about the profitability of U.S. companies and a strong debt auction by Spain.

Investors on Wednesday all but forgot the previous day's burdens and sent stocks soaring. It was a stark turnaround from the day before, when they'd pushed the market into a free-fall on worries about European debt and corporate earnings in the U.S.

The stock market is closing down sharply, extending its longest and deepest slump this year.

Stocks are finishing lower for only the second time in two weeks because of concerns about an economic slowdown in China.

Stock markets saw their worst declines of 2012 Tuesday around Global economic fears.

The stock market reached a couple of milestones this week -- Dow 13,000 for the first time since 2008 and Nasdaq 3,000 for the first time since 2000 -- but it didn't achieve much else. Stocks crept lower Friday, and the Dow Jones industrial average turned in its third losing week of the year...

The stock market continues its slow upward movement. One Jersey expert sees a combination of quiet optimism and a calming of economic fears that plagued us for part of last year.