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AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2006
... registered its best weekly gains in nearly a month, while the S&P and Nasdaq had their best weekly performances since January. LONDON - Britain's top share index closed flat, having earlier breached 6,000 points for the first time in five years, as miners ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 2.31 points at 1305.33. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 12.28 points at 2299.56. LONDON - A fresh bout of merger talk pushed the FTSE 100 index to its second straight five-year closing high, within a whisker of ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2006
... The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 5.54 points at 1303.02. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 15.94 points at 2311.84. LONDON - British shares scored a fresh near five-year closing high, boosted by mining stocks as the copper price jumped, while takeover ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 13.35 points at 1297.48. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 28.87 points at 2295.90. LONDON - UK stocks closed slightly lower as falls in the banking and telecoms sectors outweighed gains by oil explorer Cairn Energy ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2006
... The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 2.55 points at 1284.13. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 4.99 points at 2267.03. LONDON - British shares raced to their highest finish in almost five years as bid speculation boosted an array of stocks including ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2006
... points to 1281.58. Among rising shares, Nasdaq shot up 10 per cent after news of its proposed $4.2 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange Plc, which the British exchange rejected as too low. That helped the Nasdaq Composite Index snap a six-day losing ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 6.24 points at 1272.23. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 17.74 points at 2249.72. LONDON - Leading UK shares broke a steep two-day losing streak, closing higher on well-received company earnings and boosted by ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 2.59 points at 1278.47. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 0.92 points at 2267.46. LONDON - The FTSE 100 index closed down for a second straight session as selling continued on interest-rate worries, but firm drug ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 2.38 points at 1275.88. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 17.65 points at 2268.38. LONDON - Blue chip British shares dropped after breaching near-five-year highs, as worries kicked in over US interest rates and ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2006
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 8.97 points at 1278.26. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 16.57 points at 2286.03. LONDON - British shares scored the highest close in nearly five years as mergers and acquisitions speculation inspired a wave of ...