Meantime, some severe unloading with massive selling volume is leaving its mark.

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"A bullish tone has been set, and we are not of the belief that this rally is a bull trap to be followed by a serious decline, " says volume-reversal specialist Mark Leibovit of VR Trader.

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Given the legions of small business owners who assert that they cannot obtain funding for their companies, the volume here falls way short of the mark.

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For mature regions, 2013 will mark the third consecutive year of volume declines.

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In the past two trading days alone, the Nikkei rose 3.8% to a fresh four-year, seven-month high, closing at 12833.64 Friday on record trading volume after briefly crossing the 13, 000 mark for the first time since just before Lehman Brothers collapsed.

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D-mark of sales, so declining sales volume will cause a relatively large drop in employment.

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Finnish cell phone maker, Nokia Corp. reported first quarter results on Thursday morning that clearly missed the mark as the stock opened 15% lower into extremely heavy volume.

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As the volume of data continues to proliferate, it is this last step that will mark the difference between companies that are overwhelmed by big data and those that are powered by it.

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