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2:01 pm PT Market Wrap : Stocks closed at their best levels of the day as equity investors rallied around the possibility that a jobs shortfall may prompt the Fed to end nearly two years of rate hikes sooner than anticipated.
1:02 pm PT 21st Century Holding statement by CEO, Edward Lawson (TCHC) 18.15 +.06 : Co announces C.E.O., President and Chairman, Edward Lawson, confirmed today that he and his wife, Michele Lawson, have recently sold, as reported to the SEC, 100,000 shares of the co's common stock and purchased 18,000 shares of the co's common stock through the exercise of stock options.
1:02 pm PT Wheeling-Pittsburgh and Companhia Siderurgica Nacional form strategic alliance (WPSC) 23.09 +0.09 : Co�and Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (SID),�a Brazilian steelmaker,�jointly announced that they are in discussions concerning a strategic alliance in North America that could involve a minority investment in WPSC, a long term slab supply arrangement and other strategic considerations.
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