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NEW YORK – European sovereign debt crisis ornera yet global markets this week, but Wall Street investors will not be afraid to bet on stocks.

Wall Street has demonstrated its ability to grab the gains, and quickly find loss last week despite the European debt woes, suggesting that investors are in a sustained rally.

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"When things are apart on bad news, you know that the market is not vulnerable." The general feeling is quite solid, said Randy Frederick, Director of trade and derivatives Schwab Center for financial research in Austin, Texas.

Index options outstanding, highly focused marketing-to-call report's benchmark S & P 500 fell shortened Thanksgiving week holiday at 1.29, 1.32 signs distributed to increase for the coming week.

The report, which is always greater than 1, is the main instrument of coverage for institutional investors. The ratio increases with a gathering of market as also increases the possibility of withdrawal.

"Capacity (of disintegrates not) help investors remain optimistic about the prospects for stocks short-term." We can not this see continue until the end of January of next year, but the month of December is certainly encouraging.

The CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, gauge for fear of what is called Wall Street's fell Friday despite a decrease in inventories earlier in the day as traders given reasons less than purchase protection.

The index, usually moving inverse S & P 500, reference relationship strayed and closed at its lowest since April.

Exchanged S & P 500 VIX Short Term Futures iPath Exchange note encoches new year minimum of $41.11 Friday. ETN, offering volatility directional exhibition draws the future of two months before the VIX.

"It is definitely a trend in the VXX to try to get in the ETN, said Dan Deming, a trader Stutland Equities VIX options."

Fears that the European debt crisis could spiral out of control pushed stocks off the coast of peaks two years hit this month. Last week, the S & P 500 was down 3% from November 5.

But the index recovered levels beginning November last week that the fears were countered by an avalanche of healthy economic data and an optimistic perspective on consumer holiday shopping.

"Europe is its own game now," Jeff Roach, Chief Economist at the horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina, said, adding that investors are beginning to brush on macro longer-term issues.

After shrug off the coast of the warm number of jobs for November Friday, closed stock their best week in a month with the Dow Jones industrial average up to 2.6 per cent, the standard & Poor 500 to 3 percent and the Nasdaq composite index increased by 2.2%.

For the year so far, the S & P 500 is 9.8%, while the Dow Jones index is 9.2% and the Nasdaq was 14.2%.

Economic indicators this week will be relatively light, with releasing its semi-annual economic forecasts for the sectors of manufacturing and services u.s. Tuesday supply management Institute. Data weekly mortgage on Wednesday and Thursday jobless claims will always get scrutiny.

Friday, Wall Street will monitor international trade deficit in October, which is expected to dip 43.8 billion $ 44 billion in September, according to economists polled by Reuters.

Also due to this day at 8: 30 pm EST, November prices seen a 0.8% gain in October 0.9%, import and export of November price seen 0.6 percent in October from 0.8% gain. At about 9: 55 pm investors will get a preliminary reading on the feeling of consumers of December the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan surveys of consumers. Forecast calls for sentiment index amounted to 72.5 in final reading 71.6 November December.

As the year concludes, portfolio managers will continue to pursue outperforming stocks and sell some laggards to maintain their balance sheets.

The average of three days of stocks hitting new heights of 52 weeks the stock exchange New York accelerated at the end of November and is now nearly 250, while down in December and remain light of stocks making new 52-week decreases.

Portfolio managers "all seek to scramble to catch up." They risk performance, they risk differential and ultimately, they have employment risk, said Jeffrey Saut, investment Chief Strategist at Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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