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Stocks fizzled Monday, limping through the last trading day of 2007 but will close the year with respectable gains.

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Stocks fizzled Monday, limping through the last trading day of 2007 but will close the year with respectable gains.

When I sat down for my annual review of what I've written over the past year, something jumped out at me. Usually, I write about widely diversified subjects. But in 2007, I devoted an inordinate number of columns to the shenanigans of leveraged buyout firms and the attempts by the world's central banks to rescue financial markets.

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Stocks fizzled Monday afternoon, limping through the last trading day of the year but, for the year, markets are set to see respectable gains.

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