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Stocks compounded Monday's losses with a slack performance Tuesday morning.Wal-Mart's weak results and fresh credit-market woes dragged down the...

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The major averages opened modestly higher but turned mixed as Wal-Mart and Home Depot weighed on stocks.At 10:02 a.m. ET, the Nasdaq climbed 0.2%....