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Stocks end mixed on rising oil, financial worries (AP)

Traders work in the oil pit, left, and options pit, right, at the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday Aug. 21, 2008. Oil prices have rebounded after falling about $35, or nearly a quarter, from their all-time trading record $147.27 on July 11. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Wall Street finished mixed Thursday after investors largely shrugged off a jump in oil prices and focused instead on a bullish call on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. that eased worries about the financial sector.
Energy lifts Dow and S&P but credit worries remain (Reuters)

A board at the New York Stock Exchange shows the final tally for the day, June 26, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Thursday as surging oil prices drove up energy shares, though fresh fears of more credit losses on Wall Street kept gains modest and pushed the Nasdaq into negative territory.
Leading economic indicators fell sharply in July (AP)
AP - A private business group's measure of the economy's health showed the largest drop in one year as stocks fell, new building permits declined and unemployment rose.
European shares head lower (AFP)

A trader shows the GCDS index curve at a bank in Paris, January 2008. Europe's main stock markets dropped, bringing a swift end to a brief rally, amid investor unease about a global economic slowdown.(AFP/File/Jean Ayissi)AFP - Europe's main stock markets dropped on Thursday, bringing a swift end to a brief rally, amid investor unease about a global economic slowdown.
Daimler denies trucks spinoff being mulled (Reuters)

Details of a Mercedes London taxi are seen in London August 7, 2008. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)Reuters - Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) denied a magazine report on Thursday that it was considering more job cuts and may spin off its market-leading trucks business as a way to help boost its weak share price.
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