Stocks End Barely Higher
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Stocks ended barely higher  on Tuesday  as oil prices rose and investors tried to anticipate the  economic fallout from Hurricane Ivan as it moved through the  Gulf of Mexico toward a possible landfall in the United States.
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U.S. stocks closed slightly higher on  Thursday amid mixed economic news and light trading as Wall  Street headed home early for the Christmas holiday.
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U.S. stocks edged higher on Wednesday,   putting the Dow Jones industrial average within view of its   all-time closing high after data showing an unexpected rise in   August new home sales.
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Wall Street ended an otherwise strong week with a mixed finish yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 22.93, or 0.23 percent, to 10,027.
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US stocks appeared likely to open slightly higher on Thursday following a mild rally on Wednesday that pushed the blue chip Dow Industrial Average and the S&amp;P 500 Index to their highest points since mid-2001.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks ended barely  higher on Friday as a spike in oil prices to near-record levels  pared earlier gains and renewed concerns about the effect of  high energy prices on consumer spending and corporate profits.
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U.S. stocks finished slightly higher  on Monday as investors bet on good earnings news as the  fourth-quarter reporting season kicks off, although a  late-afternoon wave of computerized trades wiped out part of  the session's gains.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Big gains in technology stocks helped the Nasdaq close Monday just shy of its high for the year, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished in the red after a spate of brokerage downgrades.
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Stocks edged up slightly on Friday, capping a week in which a downturn in oil prices helped investors mount a modest rally despite the looming uncertainty of the presidential election
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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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Stocks ended marginally higher on   Monday as gains in technology shares such as Microsoft Corp.   offset a sell-off in shares of energy and metals companies   following a drop in commodity prices.
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The blue-chip Dow average ended  slightly lower, while the tech-driven Nasdaq inched higher on  Tuesday as investors waited for hints on Wednesday from the  Federal Reserve about the pace of interest-rate increases.
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NEW YORK US stocks ended slightly lower Monday, despite receding oil prices, as a raft of disappointing earnings reports and jitters over the close presidential election tempered investors&#39; optimism, traders said.
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NEW YORK - Stocks closed slightly higher in lackluster pre-holiday trading Wednesday, with a better-than-expected government report on oil inventories and good unemployment figures giving investors reasons to buy.
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US stocks were mixed but trending slightly higher at midmorning on Wednesday, as a renewed rise in bond yields stalled a positive start for the major benchmarks.
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Stocks opened a touch higher Friday in  what is set to be a thinly traded final session as investors  wind down for the year -- with all three indices on course to  end higher for 2004 as a whole.
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U.S. stocks ended the last day of 2004  slightly down on Friday, but the main U.S. indexes posted their  second successive year of gains following a fourth-quarter  rally.