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U.S. firms expand at fastest since ’06

Recovery quickening, group says

By BOB WILLIS BLOOMBERG NEWS

Posted: December 31, 2009 at 3:51 a.m.

Companies in the U.S. expanded in December at the fastest pace in almost four years, signaling the economic recovery is gaining speed heading into 2010, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. said Wednesday.

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