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When Wall Street gets back to work on Tuesday, it will face a holiday-shortened week and a slew of economic indicators. But the nagging problems that dogged it in 2011 remain. 

The president's $447 billion jobs bill, which was sent to Congress this week, would end a slew of tax breaks for corporations and those households with annual incomes of more than $250,000.

Republicans say there's little chance of Congress accepting the proposal.

The four Republicans expected to lead the House and Senate in the new Congress raised concerns Wednesday with the Federal Reserve's recent decision to launch a $600 billion bond-buying program, the latest in a slew of political attacks on the central bank following the midterm election earlier this month.

A slew of troubling market factors have collided to send investors looking for safety amid concerns that the economy may slip back into a deeper recession.

April's jobs report and a slew of other indicators may bolster U.S. stocks next week, but jitters over Greece's debt and investigations into Goldman Sachs will test the market's resiliency.

Frank DiPascali, formerly the finance chief at Bernard Madoff's investment advisory business, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a slew of charges including fraud.

Media company E.W. Scripps, which earlier this year shut down Denver's Rocky Mountain News, said Monday that weak advertising spending and a slew of charges led to a net loss in the first quarter.