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That’s how much the Dow Jones industrial average jumped Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke embraced the idea of providing the embattled U.S. economy with another jolt of tens of billions of federal dollars. The mood on Wall Street also was lifted by more signs of a loosening of the U.S. credit market. See stories related to the financial crisis on Page 20.