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excerpt; Greece’s continued battle to restructure its debt, amending the terms of their bonds using collective-action clauses, weighed down markets early in the week, jobs numbers released on Thursday morning seems to have buoyed investors’ confidence and brought markets back up to nearly where they began the week. The Dow fell substantially early on in the week, dipping below 12,740 on Tuesday, but managed to recoup most of its losses to close down only 55 points or 0.4% for the week at 12,922. It is up 11.6% for the year. The Nasdaq fell early on as well, but regained its losses to close at 2,674, up 12 points or 0.4% for the week, and up 12.7% for the year. The S&P 500 ended the week flat, up one point or 0.07% at 1,369. It is up 8.2% for the year. The Russell 2000 saw the biggest respective gain this week, rising 1.8% or 15 points to close at 817, which leaves it up 4.3% for the year.