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Stocks Are Surging After The Long Weekend

Sam RoSep 3, 2013, 19:18 IST

Google FinanceInvestors and traders are back from their three-day weekends, and they're bidding stock prices higher.

The S&P 500 is up by 1.0%. The Dow is up 113 points, or about 0.7%.

This comes after a wave of international PMI reports signaled that the world economy was still growing.

Geopolitical concerns have also receded a bit as any military response on Syria seems be delayed at the least.