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Three months ago, investors were worried about the Big One. The stock market was sinking fast, headed toward its worst setback since 1990. And bearish strategists, many of whom had long forecast an end to one of the greatest bull markets in history, were gloating. Then the market stormed back, and in the quarter that ended Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 16.5 percent, its largest second-quarter gain since 1938, and the fifth-largest gain for any quarter since the end of World War II.
Coming Friday, an analysis of the last quarter on Wall Street with predictions for the coming quarter and half-year.
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