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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;Right now, U.S. stocks are shrugging off mounting concerns about &lt;a href="item/231281" target="_blank" title="swine flu, U.S. stock market, consumer confidence, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread betting U.S. stocks, spread bets stock market"&gt;swine flu &lt;/a&gt;and focusing instead on &lt;b&gt;positive economic news&lt;/b&gt;. The &lt;a href="http://www.stockmarketfunding.com/SMF-Blogs/Economic-Analysis/April-2009/Consumer-confidence-soars-in-April.aspx" target="_blank" title="swine flu, U.S. stock market, consumer confidence, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread betting U.S. stocks, spread bets stock market"&gt;consumer confidence&lt;/a&gt; survey is the highest it's been in months, handily beating forecasted numbers.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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