The Dow was up 80 points before pulling back after the Institute for Supply Management's purchasing manager index fell last month.
The Institute for Supply Management will release its nonmanufacturing index for the month of January, which is expected to come in at 32.8.
The Conference Board is out with its leading indicators index for the month of May, and the results reversed a 0.4% decline that it measured in April with a 0.8% increase to 114.7.
The MSCI Greece stock index has a 12-month total return of 42%, a tad ahead of 41% for the MSCI Europe index.
The gain marked the best daily performance for the index in almost a month.
For instance, the important ISM Mfg Index has risen each month since October, reaching 54.1 in January.
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For example on the upside, if the price index over the 18 month period was 10%, the note would return 20%.
The worst news came from the manufacturing sector, as the ISM factory index dropped sharply last month, and was worse than anyone expected.
It was the South Korean index's worst month since August 2011.
Taipei's stock index hit a 20-month low , the slide greased by two financial scandals.
In Italy the index rose for the second month to 47.8 in January from 46.7 last month.
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Moreover, the employment component of the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index recovered to a five month high in May.
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This will change on September 15th when the index will be published every month, starting with house prices in July.
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Earlier in the week, the government said new-home sales dropped 2.8% and that the producer price index rose 1% last month.
Last week, the Dow rose 3.6%, including a 124-point bounce on Friday that sent the blue-chip index to a five-month high.
The ISM Non-Manufacturing Index fell for the second month in a row, and at 53.1 was below the consensus estimate of 54.
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The U.S. dollar index is lower Thursday morning, on profit taking from recent gains that pushed the index to a six-month high this week.
Earlier this month, the index covering the Mumbai exchange touched levels not seen since February 2001, having climbed by more than 50% since April.
The U.S. dollar index was sharply lower Thursday on profit taking from recent gains that pushed the index to a six-month high earlier this week.
See on the weekly CCI chart that recent price action has seen a strong rebound from the summertime low, in which the index hit a 21-month low.
While rising food and energy costs are forcing consumer sentiment metrics lower, with the University of Michigan consumer confidence index hitting a 16-month low in March and probably heading lower, according to Capital Economics, consumers have managed to weather the storm and keep spending going.
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By comparison, last month's confidence index was 94.2, and the lowest reading, in November, was 83.9.
It was the biggest one-month improvement in this index in more than two years.
This Sunday, Chinese authorities released its purchase managers index survey showing the fourth straight month of gains.
That news sunk the U.S. dollar index to a fresh four-month low and was bullish for the U.S. stock market.
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The National Federation of Independent Business said its small-business optimism index for March fell from a month earlier, matching economists' expectations.
The more narrowly focused Dow jumped 11%, which was the best first three month performance for the index in 15 years.
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