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Bust out the Champagne: The three major stock indexes are set to post their best year since 2003. Despite the yearly gains, however, the close of the Aughties also mark the first-ever negative decade on a total-return basis for Wall Street. Economic data on Thursday also showed jobless claims fell about 22,000 to 432,000, though economic experts caution the drop may be due to the holidays, and anything above 400,000 is considered very high.