Week of December 23 – 29, 2013

• Yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury bond hit two-year high of 3.02%.
• The current U.S. Congress is the worst in their lifetimes, said two-thirds of participants in a recent poll.
• Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Index closed at its highest level in 6 years.
• The first 3-D printed human organ is expected in 2014.

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