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Fri Dec 4, 10:52 AM ET

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Specialist Donald Hemple, foreground center, and colleagues watch monitors at the post that trades Bank of America on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. Stocks surged in early trading after the government said the nation's jobless rate dropped to 10 percent in November and far fewer jobs were lost.

(AP Photo/Richard Drew)