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Today's Closing Update: Slim Losses Barely Dent Week's Gains

regarding, from the article:

"...reports out of China. The latest data showed improvement in industrial output, investment, loans and retail sales...." -

if the data is suspect, then the impact is muted -

though most of what i've read is that the data is too skewed and applied to be indicative of the growth levels shown, i'd welcome any veriviable data supporting or disproving the chinese data...

actually, i'd like the same regarding our own stats here in our own country ;-)

Naked Shorted Stocks

the selection of just a few stocks to enforce already existent naked shorting rules, is what is making the market negative - the sense of fairness, no matter now tenuous in reality anyway, has been ruptured