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Stocks are down in early trading as investors take in the government's bailout proposal and a bunch of other stuff. There was concern over the weekend that Friday's big day on Wall Street would not be sustained - just too many worries about the $700 billion bailout plan and other shoes waiting to drop. Meanwhile, oil is over $106 a barrel - lots of factors at play, among them renewed bullishness about the U.S. economy and an increase in Chinese oil imports.

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