Market week: August 18, 2014
 

Last week domestic equities managed to build on the gains of the week before. The Dow industrials finally returned to positive territory for the year, and the Nasdaq had the kind of weekly gain it hasn't seen since late May. Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions helped spur interest in the relative safety of the benchmark 10-year Treasury, cutting the yield to its lowest level since June 2013.

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