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With earnings continuing to surprise and minimal technical resistance ahead, the bears may have to wait a bit longer for the much-anticipated end to the current stock rally.

Oil prices climbed to near $75 a barrel Thursday in European trading, extending big gains from the previous session as global stock markets rallied.

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On the Toronto Stock Exchange, the S&P/TSX composite index was down 46.2 points to 11,486.6 at mid-morning.

Wall Street investors are waiting to see if a seven-month stock rally can be sustained on the latest round of bank earnings this week.

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Gloomy data about U.S. consumer confidence and unemployment has put the brakes on a stock rally and has weakened hopes that the recession’s end is in sight.

Markets lost ground on concern that the stock rally of the past few months is not justified by the current pace of global recovery.

The stock market has run out of reasons to rally, at least for now. After a two-month surge that saw the Dow Jones industrials average soar 31 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500 index shoot up 37 percent, investors gave up some of those gains last week.

As the new week begins, there doesn't seem to be any catalysts that could restart the rally.