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Wall Street opens higher as Barclays lifts banks


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Monday, extending their recovery from 12-year lows hit earlier this month, after comments from Britain's Barclays made it the latest bank to buoy hopes that some stabilization may be returning to the sector.

    Also lending support to investor optimism was news from the weekend that the U.S. Treasury Department will announce more details this week on its proposal for having public-private partnerships take bad assets off banks' books.

    Shares of Citigroup rose 8.4 percent to $1.93 and JP Morgan Chase gained 1.1 percent to $23.95. The KBW Bank index climbed 2.4 percent.