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A year after its ballyhooed IPO fell to earth with a thud, the social media giant is still trying to regain the trust of investors

Another day, another sharp rally as the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq leave yesterday's losses in the dust

Good news for U.S. Treasury, which is selling shares to help pay cost of carmaker's $49.5 billion bailout in 2008 and 2009

The news is good for taxpayers and the U.S. Treasury, whose 2008 and 2009 bailout of the carmaker ran to $49.5 billion

Conference Board says index of leading indicators up 0.6 percent, to 95, after 0.2 percent decline in March

Agency counsels strict enforcement of bailout, warning 2013 economy will shrink 7 percent, 17 percent unemployment in 2014

Forecasts that Greece's deep, six-year recession is likely to end in 2014

Key event Friday is the release of the Conference Board's U.S. index of leading indicators for April

Investors watch Conference Board's index of leading indicators for clues about the strength of the recovery in the world's largest economy

Industry has been victim of the region's deepening recession, and Europe's carmakers are looking to see when the bottom will hit