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Markets gain as shutdown continues

Stocks moved higher on Wall Street yesterday, but investors remained focused on Washington, where a partial government shutdown and a fast approaching deadline on the nation's borrowing limit have weighed on markets all week.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 76.10 points, or 0.5 percent, to 15,072.58 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 11.84 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,690.50. The Nasdaq composite index rose 33.41, or 0.9 percent, to 3,807.75.

Mass. Gaming Commission gets 
final slots applications

The state Gaming Commission received final slots applications yesterday from Cordish Cos., which has proposed a slots parlor in Leominster; Penn National Gaming, which hopes to add slot machines at the Plainridge harness racetrack in Plainville; and Raynham Park.

The five-member commission is scheduled to hear 90-minute presentations from each of the companies Monday. They are competing for the state's sole slots parlor license. All three passed an extensive background check conducted by the commission, and reached agreements with officials in their host communities that were later approved by voters.

The commission hopes to award the slots-only license in late December or early January.

NSA trying to crack Web privacy tool

The National Security Agency has been trying to crack the online anonymity provided by Tor, a U.S.-funded Internet tool designed to keep Internet activity private and said to be widely used by dissidents in oppressive countries, as well as by terrorists, according to the latest secret intelligence documents drawn from the cache leaked by Edward Snowden and published by the UK's Guardian newspaper.

The NSA hasn't been able to crack Tor outright, but through various means it's been able to "de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users," says an internal NSA document quoted by the Guardian.

THE SHUFFLE

• Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New England announced that Wendy Wagenbach, left, has been appointed field training manager. In this position, Wagenbach will have oversight of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage's education and career development department.
• BlumShapiro, a regional accounting, tax and business consulting firm, announced the addition of Kimberley Train as a partner in the firm's litigation services and business valuation group. Train will operate out of BlumShapiro's Boston and Quincy offices.

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