US Stocks Rise for 3rd Day; New Highs Set
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U.S. stocks rose for a third day on  Thursday as strong durable goods orders and a report that  showed consumers' moods remain buoyant helped the Dow Jones  industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index set new  multiyear highs.
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US stocks were trading higher for the third consecutive session on Friday, repairing more of the damage inflicted in January, and were on course for their first weekly rise this year.
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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, a day  after the blue-chip Dow hit a 3-1/2 year high, as oil prices  tumbled more than a dollar and battered-down drug stock Pfizer  Inc. PFE.N rose more than 3 percent.
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U.S. stocks closed slightly higher on  Thursday as the "Santa Claus" rally kept going for a third  straight day.
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U.S. stocks rose for a third straight   day on Wednesday as data showing a surprising gain in August   new home sales fueled optimism that a slowdown in the housing   market won't be severe enough to hurt corporate profit growth.
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Stocks extended their rally on Friday,  lifting the Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX to a 3-year  high, while bonds and gold rose and the dollar and oil dropped.
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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday after the government raised its estimate of third-quarter economic growth, calming worries that the economy was slowing sharply.
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US STOCKS rose yesterday as a higher price target for the shares of Apple Computer generated enthusiasm for technology stocks and investors waved off worry about a decline in the dollar.
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Leading Wall St shares surged overnight after a bounce in Pfizer&#39;s shares and an upgrade for Intel, sending the Dow to a three-and-a-half year high.
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Stocks rose on Thursday, as relatively cheap valuations tempted investors back to Wall Street after a three-day losing streak that had pushed Nasdaq into an official bear market.
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U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday as oil  prices resumed their retreat and pushed the S&P 500 to a  three-year high, with tech shares lifted by Microsoft  Corp.MSFT.O and online marketplace eBay Inc.EBAY.O
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U.S. stocks jumped the most in three weeks on Friday, as strong results from the company behind the BlackBerry boosted technology shares while financials rose on a report that another U.S. brokerage may get a big foreign investment.
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NEW YORK -- US stocks rose, sending the Standard &amp; Poor's 500 Index to its highest close in more than three years and erasing the Dow Jones industrial average's loss for 2004.
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US stocks were broadly higher by mid-morning on Friday, as the market rebounded modestly after three days of heavy selling sparked by sharply higher US bond yields.
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US stocks rose, sending the Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index to its highest close in more than three years and erasing the Dow Jones industrial average&#39;s loss for 2004.
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US stocks were higher on Tuesday, amid a broad-based rally that included a rebound in the battered financial sector.
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US stocks were higher at midmorning on Thursday, as a slew of deals fuelled the market&#39;s momentum, a day after the S&amp;P 500 had risen to a record close.