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Gainers

• Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up 2.38 percent to $13.12. Financials bouncing back Friday, following some dire comments from ECB President Mario Draghi on Thursday.
  
  Draghi suggested that there may be limited bond buying, and significant downside still remained in Europe. Friday, with all 26 EU nations agreeing to make monetary and fiscal policy changes for the better, some of those fears have been alleviated.
  
  Citigroup (NYSE: C) is leading higher today, up 5 percent on the session.

Gainers

• iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSE: VXX) up 0.90 percent to $47.97. The CBOE VIX is actually rather flat on the session, as investors once again turn to Europe and potential implosion -- that's right, implosion -- if a deal isn't reached
• iShares MSCI South Korea Index (NYSE: EWY) up 0.57 percent to $51.28.
  
  South Korean lawmakers ratified NAFTA with the U.S. Notably, upon passage of the measure, one member against the measure unloaded a tear gas bomb on his peers.

Gainers

• United States Oil (NYSE: USO) up 2.33 percent to $33.40. Crude moving higher Friday following retail sales data which added a little bit of confidence to an economic rebound.
  
  Commerce Department data today had total retail sales increasing 1.1 percent in September from August. Analysts had been expecting just a 0.8 percent rise.
  
  Excluding automobiles, sales rose 0.6 percent, ahead of the 0.3 percent expected.
• iShares MSCI South Korea Index (NYSE: EWY) up 2.02 percent to $52.49.

Gainers

• iShares MSCI Brazil Index (NYSE: EWZ) up 4.69 percent to $54.64. Shares in Brazil are rebounding today following U.S. and European data.
  
  Initial claims in the U.S. rose just 6,000 to 401,000, lower than the 410,000 expected. The positive outlook could help to lift commodities prices, a major part of Brazil's economy.
• Guggenheim Solar (NYSE: TAN) up 7.12 percent to $3.46.
  
  Solars are moving higher, led by First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), which is up 7.9 percent on talks of a possible takeover.

Gainers

• iShares MSCI South Korea Index (NYSE: EWY) up 3.75 percent to $49.20. Despite South Korea's current-account surplus contracting to $401.3 million, the Bank of Korea still sees the nation retaining a surplus over the next year as emerging markets will continue to buy from South Korea amid European woes.
• Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up 2.65 percent to $12.22.
  
  Citigroup, Inc.

Gainers

• iShares MSCI Japan Index (NYSE: EWJ) up 1.52 percent to $9.69. Japan is trending higher today, as Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara suggested that Japan set up a sovereign wealth fund to help stem high yen and sell assets in order to reduce tax increases on it's quake reconstruction fund.
  
  According to the WSJ, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he'd consider it.
• Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLE) up 0.45 percent to $62.01.

Gainers

• Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLU) up 2.20 percent to $34.53. Utilities making a nice move Tuesday, as investors are hoping recent economic data will lead to further Fed stimulus.
  
  The group is being led by Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC), which is up 2.6 percent on the session. The ETF also hit a 52-week high of $34.57.
• iShares MSCI South Korea Index (NYSE: EWY) up 2.15 percent to $52.68.
  
  South Korean stocks are trading higher with U.S.

Gainers

• iShares MSCI Brazil Index (NYSE: EWZ) up 1.68 percent to $66.60. Brazilian stocks catching a bid after its central bank cut rates by 0.5 points to 12 percent.
  
  The Bovespa is up over 3 percent in trading Thursday.
• PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP) up 0.38 percent to $21.15.
  
  Some mixed economic data today causing markets to search for a direction. Initial claims fell to 409,000 last week, slightly ahead of the 407,000 expected.

Gainers

• Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up 1.14 percent to $13.36. Financials rising a little today, as Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is said to seek the sale of its correspondent mortgage business.
  
  Initially up 2.2 percent on the day, BofA is now just 0.6 percent better.
• iShares MSCI South Korea Index (NYSE: EWY) up 2.74 percent to $56.67.

Gainers

• Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index (NYSE: TAN) up 7.68 percent to $5.19. Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) is leading the ETF higher today, following its second-quarter earnings report.
  
  Though results were nothing to write home about, Trina appears to have issued solid shipment guidance for the third quarter.
  
  GT Advanced Technologies, Inc.