Stocks fall after 4-week rally; Dow below 8,000

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NEW YORK – Wall Street pulled back for the first time in five days Monday as investors worried about balance sheets at banks and the quarterly results that businesses will start releasing this week.

Investors were also disappointed that talks for IBM Corp.’s $7 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. have stalled — a sign that the market is still not ready to support big mergers.

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