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September 8th, 2015 
Awake Goy U.S. stocks rose, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s second-biggest weekly retreat this year, after a late rally in Chinese stock markets led global equities higher.
Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and General Motors Co. all posted gains of at least 2 percent amid a broad-based rally as investors returned from the Labor Day holiday. Meredith Corp. added 10 percent after Media General Inc. agreed to buy the company in an acquisition valued at about $2.4 billion. Media General gained 3.8 percent. Teco Energy Inc. surged 24 percent after agreeing Friday to a $6.5 billion buyout by Canada’s Emera Inc.
The S&P 500 jumped 1.6 percent to 1,951.32 at 10:19 a.m. in New York, after sliding 1.5 percent on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 262.93 points, or 1.6 percent, to 16,365.34. The Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 1.7 percent after earlier rising as much as 2.3 percent.
“Now that China showed that it was not going to break down further, our market is taking back what it lost on Friday,” said Matt Maley, an equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co LLC in New York. “The market got hit hard on Friday because people were worried about China.”
Equities around the world climbed today, led by China. A rally in Shanghai in the final hour of trading followed a pattern that has recently suggested state intervention to prop up the nation’s equities. U.S. stocks have turned more volatile in recent weeks as concerns about a Chinese economic slowdown mingled with dread about the first Federal Reserve interest-rate increase in nine years.
The S&P 500 swung up or down an average of 2 percent a day for more than two weeks through Friday, while before Aug. 20, the 2015 average was around 0.6 percent. In nine of 12 days, the benchmark has closed with a move of at least 1.3 percent. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index had spent 11 straight sessions above 25, a level that before August it had touched on just five days since 2011. The measure of market turbulence known as the VIX fell 6.6 percent Tuesday to 25.98.
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