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<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Stocks opened strongly higher on Wall Street, led by big gains in banks as investors expected interest rates to rise.</p><p>The early jump Wednesday put the Dow Jones industrial average above 21,000 points for the first time.</p><p>JPMorgan Chase rose 2.6 percent and Goldman Sachs rose 2.1 percent, the biggest increases in the Dow.</p><p>Bond prices fell and yields rose after a Federal Reserve official, New York Fed President William Dudley, said the case for raising interest rates had gotten stronger.</p><p>The Dow rose 195 points, or 1 percent, to 21,016.</p><p>The Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index rose 20 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,384. The Nasdaq composite increased 48 points, or 0.8 percent, to 5,874.</p><p>The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.45 percent.</p><style>
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As stocks rise sharply, Dow surpasses 21,000 for the first time ever