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The Dow moves up 179 points, or 1.5%, but the Nasdaq has a better day, jumping more than 2.3%. Reports suggest Yahoo and News Corp. are talking a partnership deal to derail Microsoft's offer for the Internet company. Venezuela cuts off oil to ExxonMobil.

Contrarians may be hard to please, but they'll give credit where they think credit is due. Here are a handful of stocks endorsed by doubters among the MSN Money CAPS community.

Big-money players make their profits by finding the right sectors at the right time. Here's a simple system using MSN Money's ETF tracker that can help you do the same.

The link may not seem obvious at first. But if you look at the Sept. 11 plotters' goals -- and at what has happened in the US since the attacks -- it's hardly far-fetched.