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Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones industrials to a 936-point gain and finally offering relief from eight consecutive days of sto

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Co reports they had a solid Q3 in both Las Vegas and Macau but we have very little visibility on future earnings due to the global economic situation and the recently imposed travel restrictions in Macau.

Stocks rallied worldwide, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rebounding from its worst week since 1933, and oil climbed from a 13-month low after governments in Europe, the U.S. and Asia agreed to support banks.

The Nasdaq is up 6.38% to 1755, the S&P is up 5.99% to 953, and the Dow is up 5.87% to 8947. Leading sectors include: Autos +27.2%, Managed Healthcare +17.6%, Investment Banking & Brokerage +16.1%,

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``It's certainly going to be the worst since the 1980s,'' says Bradford DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley who worked at the U.S. Treasury Department from 1993 to 1995.

Reuters.com reports U.S. regulators took over two small banks on Friday, in Michigan and Illinois, bringing the tally of bank failures to 15 so far this year.

The British government injected an unprecedented 37 billion pounds ($63 billion) into the country’s leading banks Monday to avoid a full-scale collapse of the sector.