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Posted on: Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Dow has sixth straight gain


Associated Press

NEW YORK — Investors are taking the numbers and running with them.

Stocks jumped again yesterday, giving the Dow Jones industrials their sixth straight advance, as investors got more robust earnings news from big companies and data that suggest the economy is closer to a recovery. News that CIT had struck a financing deal that will keep the troubled commercial lender out of bankruptcy also drove the market higher.