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Stocks keep rising as Wall Street looks past economy's pain

by Stan Choe
| January 8, 2021 7:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ticking higher on Friday, despite a sober reminder of how many jobs the pandemic is destroying, as Wall Street keeps focusing more on the economy’s potentially brighter future than its current pain.

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