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U.S. blue chips fell on Monday on growing concerns about U.S. entering economic recession as no agreement on the next year's budget has been made and the fiscal cliff threatens to injure the nation's economy.  House Republicans rejected President Obama's request for tax increases and suggested $1.4 trillion in spending cuts and $800 billion of revenue by limiting tax relief and bounding deductions for high-income earners. The Dow Jones industrial Average dropped 0.5% or, 59.98 points, to 12,965.60. All sectors within the index pared losses with Basic Materials, Oil and Gas, and Consumer Goods sectors loosing the most. The companies that slightly gained were Cisco systems, Merck & Co and Pfizer Inc, by their shares adding 0.74%, 0.32% and 0.20%, subsequently. Meanwhile, the shares of El du Pont de Nemours lost 1.74%, General electric fell 1.47% and Coca-Cola Co dropped 1.42%.  The drug maker Merck & Co advanced as it has started a new drug research of the Alzheimer's disease.


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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:28:32 GMT

Nikkei

Most Asian stocks declined on lower-than-expected manufacturing data in the U.S. and inability of the U.S. lawmakers to handle the budget proposals. The U.S. manufacturing data has favored profit-taking on exporters who benefit from weaker Yen.  The Japanese Nikkei 225 Stock Average inched lower 0.3% to 9,432.46, dipping from its seventh-month closing high the prior session. However, experts see the

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:06:34 GMT

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U.S. equities trimmed losses, after gaining the last two weeks and sending the S&P's index up, as data showed manufacturing shrank in November. The manufacturing PMI dropped more-than-expected to 49.5 the prior month from 51.7 in October adding to concerns about possible economic turmoil caused by the so-called fiscal cliff. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% to 1,409.46, after earlier reaching

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