Stocks & Bonds: Shares Rise Across the Board; S.& P. Hits 6-Year High
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Dell had its biggest rally in more than three years and consumers remained confident before the holiday shopping season.
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London's FTSE 100 shares index has hit 6,000 points as investors seized on strong gains by US and Japanese shares, falling oil prices and a buoyant mining sector.
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Blue-chip stocks edged higher on Friday, pushing the Dow to a record, as General Electric Co  increased a stock buyback plan and a report showed consumer sentiment rose in early July.
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Stocks rallied strongly in the US last night, with both the Dow and the Nasdaq at their highest for months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above its end 2003 level for the first time in more than four months.
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U.S. stocks extended gains on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both up more than 1 percent, as investors hunted for bargains among large cap technology shares.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with  investors betting on good earnings news as the fourth-quarter  reporting season kicks off, while cable operator Comcast Corp.  CMCSA.O helped lift the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq with a 2  percent climb.
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Stocks gained on Wednesday, with the   S&P 500 briefly touching a five-year high, amid optimism about   corporate profits and the outlook for inflation, after the   Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates unchanged.
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Stocks rose on Monday with the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials eking out closing records as higher energy shares and a fresh round of takeovers offset concerns about a sharp sell-off in Chinese stocks.
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Mergers &amp; acquisitions activity drove European stock markets to their highest level in more than six years on Tuesday morning.
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U.S. stocks surged on Thursday, with the Dow hitting a record on its biggest point gain since 2002, after healthy retail sales reassured investors about consumer spending and a $38 billion mining takeover fed expectations for more deals.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- US stocks staged a late-day rally to end higher Wednesday, with the Nasdaq climbing for the seventh straight session, as investor appetite for attractively valued shares trumped concern over a spate of profit warnings and a new high
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NEW YORK, May 25 -- U.S. stocks rose Friday on more corporate dealmaking, capping a volatile week of trading in which the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index flirted with an all-time high but always fell short at the close.
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Leading Wall St shares were given a boost by data showing stronger economic growth than expected and by a fall in oil prices. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones was up 56.46 points to 10,815.89 and the Nasdaq had risen by 6.12 points to 2,157.03.
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NEW YORK, May 30 -- The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit a record high Wednesday, marking a four-year recovery of U.S. stocks battered by the burst of the tech bubble, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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U.S. blue chips rose on Thursday, led  by tobacco stocks, while technology share were under pressure  by a warning from Applied Materials Inc. AMAT.O, the world's  biggest semiconductor-equipment maker.
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The stock market rebounded, with Microsoft shares rising to their highest level in six years after the companyâs profit exceeded Wall Street expectations.
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Stocks rallied Wednesday, with the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs, as investors found momentum at the end of a tumultuous session on Wall Street.