Stocks and commodities rallied and the dollar slumped on the first trading day of 2010 amid signs that manufacturing is improving around the world. Oil climbed above $81 a barrel after freezing weather hit the U.S.
U.S. manufacturing expanded in December at the fastest pace in more than three years, capping a late-2009 global factory rebound that helped pull the world out of the worst slump since the 1930s.
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