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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Amid Debt-Ceiling Drama, Interest Rates Have Hardly Followed the Script

Updated: August 1 2011,
Author: barrel fan
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On Wall Street, stocks initially rallied Monday on the news of a debt-ceiling deal, but a weak report on manufacturing killed the surge. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the financial world’s reactions to the drama over a debt deal as part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news.