Stocks jump after discount rate cut
    (AP)

 

AP - Stocks soared Friday after the Federal Reserve did what Wall Street was clamoring for and cut its key discount rate a half percentage point. The move quelled investors' credit worries at least for the time being and sent the Dow Jones industrials up more than 130 points.


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