Investors look to extend restarted rally

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A stock market that resumed its rally on upbeat earnings reports gets another batch of numbers this week — and must decide whether to keep going or backtrack.

Over the past two weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index have each jumped more than 11 percent as companies across almost every industry issued better-than-expected earnings reports or forecasts for the rest of 2009.

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