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Stock markets rise in United States, Europe

Corporate profits, Spain debt sale fuel increase

By Victoria Shannon

 |  New York Times  

  April 18, 2012

Stock markets rose Tuesday on both sides of the Atlantic, propelled by encouraging corporate profits, a well-received sale of government debt in Spain, a recovery in Apple stock - and the lack of any strikingly bad news.

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