Stocks falter at the end of an up year

Stocks slumped Thursday in a thinly-traded session on the last day of 2009 as investors mulled a better-than-expected report on initial jobless claims at the end of a big year on Wall Street.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/F4lMuyQrh38″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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