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Urgent: U.S. stocks rebound on upbeat data

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks ended higher on Thursday after a two-day sell-off, as U.S. jobless claims data came out positive.

Both the Dow and the Nasdaq added 0.5 percent, while the S&P 500 rose 0.4 percent. Endite