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Stock Markets Mostly Unchanged

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Getty 021014 WallStreet?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1392074549028iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The stock markets haven’t changed much after last week’s rally. Fairly quiet trading followed a surge in the stock averages late last week, with investors awaiting Janet Yellen’s first comments before Congress as the new Federal Reserve chairwoman.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose just 8 points to close at 15,802. The Nasdaq Composite finished up 22 points at 4,148.17. The S&P 500 closed at 1,799, up 3 points for the session.

Activist investor Carl Icahn is backing off his campaign to pressure Apple’s board of directors into spending $50 billion, to buy back its own stock.

Shares of Yelp rose after a report that Yahoo will integrate material from the online reviews site into its search engine.

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