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Visit Sector spdRS.com or call 1-86 sector E-T-F. Stocks are rising with commodities

while the end in government bond slip as oils advance about 40 dollars a barrel

boost economic optimism. We check the markets every 15 minutes

throughout the trading day on Bloomberg. The S&P 500 is up about 4.10% or 7 points to 2049.

Dow Jones Industrial average is up half percent or 82 points to 17,639.

The NASDAQ's up a 10th of a percent or 5 points to 4838.

10 year Treasury down 11.30 seconds.

The yield 1.76 percent.

The yield on the 2 year 0.72 percent.

Naimex crude oil up 1.2 percent or 50 cents to $40.85 a barrel.

Comex Gold is up a tenth of a percent or $1.60 to $1,

$1.59.60 an ounce.

The euro, $1.1382, the n 108.45.

Activist investor, try and fund management, agreed to sell its 9.9% stake and money manager

like Mason to Shanda Group, a Singapore-based investing holding company.

U.S. Small Business Optim declining in March, according to the National Federation of Independent

Business, the Organization's monthly Small Business Optimism Index, about the 92.6 last month compared to 92.9 in February.

And that's a Bloomberg Business Flash.

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