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The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq have their best months of the year, despite a flat finish. Oil prices rebound at the close, pulling energy stocks higher. Procter & Gamble earnings don't impress.

Trading resumes in CVS on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday afternoon Nov. 1, 2006.  The drugstore operator CVS Corp. is buying pharmacy benefits manager Caremark Rx Inc. for about $21 billion in stock, the companies announced Wednesday.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Wall Street retreated Wednesday after most of the day's economic data showed weakness, including a report that manufacturing growth in October was the slowest in more than three years.


Specialist Gerry Petti, right, directs trades in shares of Kookmin Bank on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday Oct. 30, 2006. Kookmin Bank, South Korea's top lender by assets, reported Monday a bigger-than-expected 28% drop in third-quarter net profit due mainly to falling margins and a lack of non-operating gains it enjoyed in the year-earlier period.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Stocks wobbled and closed mixed for a second straight session Tuesday after a dip in consumer confidence countered better-than-expected quarterly results from companies such as Eastman Kodak Co. Nonetheless, Wall Street ended an unusually strong October with solid gains for the month.


A biotech laboratory researcher in a file photo. Stocks rose on Tuesday on positive earnings news and corporate deals, with much of the good news focused on the biotechnology sector, leading the Nasdaq higher. (Mia Shanley/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. stocks wrapped up their best month in almost a year on Tuesday, ending the session little changed as disappointing data on consumer confidence curbed investors' appetite for equities, while a broker's upgrade of Dell Inc. helped the tech sector.


AP - Wall Street was mixed for the second consecutive session as a weaker consumer confidence reading weighed on stronger-than-expected quarterly reports from several companies. October proved to be a strong month, however, with the Dow Jones industrial average repeatedly setting and breaking records.
Many investors shy away for fear of another crash. But there's a new boom fed by new technologies, though some names -- like Applied Materials -- remain the same.

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