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NEW YORK, Apr 4 (UPI) -- U.S. markets started fractionally higher, then overturned mixed Monday.

Markets were higher crossways aggregation and finished most of Europe. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Lockhart at a conference in Florida said the economy was feat finished a "Great Re-balancing" marked by a consumer fund evaluate more than triple the evaluate before the buildup to the ceding that began in 2007.

"Consumer outlay has been ontogeny more slowly relative to income than it did before the recession. I expect that this more measured activity behavior is likely to persist," he said.

In salutation trading, the Dow designer industrial averaged additional 8.67 points or 0.07 proportionality to 12,385.40. The Standard & Poor's 500 finger forfeited 1.52 or 0.11 proportionality to 1,330.89. The Nasdaq flower finger shed 6.45 or 0.23 proportionality to 2,783.15.

The 10-year riches note rose 12/32 to yield 3.41 percent.

The euro fell to $1.4208 from Friday's $1.4223. Against the yen, the note fell to 84.024 yen from Friday's 84.10 yen.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 finger gained 0.11 percent, 10.50, to 9,718.89.

In London, the FTSE 100 finger rose 0.12 percent, 7.06, to 6,016.98.