Stocks rally on additional signs of economic health

NEW YORK - Investors are taking the numbers and running with them. Stocks jumped again yesterday, giving the Dow Jones industrials their sixth straight advance, as investors got more robust earnings news from big companies and data that suggest the economy is closer to a recovery. News that the commercial lender CIT had struck a financing deal that will keep it out of bankruptcy also drove the market higher.

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