<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080331/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080402/capt.95267a1abb504f8eb38054c8b5f35cac.japan_market s_xkk106.jpg?x=110&y=130&q=85&sig=1xbv0avvMgg80upX 42wkgg--" align="left" height="130" width="110" alt="People stop and check stock update on an electric market board outside a securities' firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Japanese stocks surged Wednesday on Wall Street's overnight rally and a notion that the U.S. credit crisis may be waning. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index climbed 532.94 points, or 4.21 percent, to close at 13,189.36 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wall Street managed a moderate gain in the final session of a dismal first quarter Monday, but stock prices and the major indexes still ended the first three months of 2008 with massive losses, the casualties of the still continuing credit crisis. The Standard & Poor's 500 index, the benchmark for many widely held investments such as mutual funds, suffered a loss for the quarter of nearly 10 percent.</p><br clear="all"/>

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