How US markets fared on Friday AP - Fri Jul 29,
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Posted On: 07/30/2016 8:07:47 AM
How US markets fared on Friday
AP - Fri Jul 29, 3:48PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by better-than-expected quarterly results from Google's parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon and a modest recovery in oil prices.
On Friday:
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 24.11 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,432.24.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 3.54 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,173.60.
The Nasdaq composite rose 7.15 points, or 0.1 percent, to end at 5,162.13.
This week:
The Dow ended down 138.61 points, or 0.8 percent.
The S&P 500 was down 1.43 points, or 0.1 percent.
The Nasdaq composite was up 61.97 points, or 1.2 percent.
For the year:
The Dow is up 1,007.21 points, or 5.8 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 129.66 points, or 6.3 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 154.72 points, or 3.1 percent.
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