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NEW YORK - Stocks ended trading higher Thursday with the S&P up for a fourth session, after data suggested improvement in the labor market ahead of Friday's closely watched monthly payrolls report.

It’s happening as people have expected it would.  China’s trade is shifting away from Europe and the U.S., and heading to growing emerging markets.  Much of this is because the U.S. and Europe are contracting.

Joining a long list of Silicon Valley investors in South America, Peter Thiel and his early-stage global venture capital firm, Valar Ventures, announced its first investment in a Brazilian company Tuesday.

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