4:20 pm : The market's see-saw action -- up one day and down the next -- continued Thursday as investors used sluggish retail sales, higher energy prices and rising bond yields as the latest excuses to consolidate recent gains. Yesterday, a technology-induced rally�helped the Nasdaq record its second largest gain�of the year so far (+1.5%) and close at a six-week high, which�followed an unfounded Google-inspired sell-off a day before that.
Before the market opened, investors sifted through a plethora of same-store sales results from more than 75 retailers
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