Stocks Finish Higher on Retail Report – Associated Press – Fri 7:35 pm ET
Wall Street closed its third straight winning week with another rally Friday, advancing as a new retail sales report and a consumer sentiment reading showed that Americans are growing more confident about the economy
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FLYi rebounds in evening trade – CBS MarketWatch – Fri 7:01
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Shares of airline FLYi Inc. rose in evening trading Friday after the stock was pummeled in the regular session on news it was being pulled from a small cap index.
Stocks Extend Rally, Dollar and Oil Fall – Reuters – Fri 6:19 pm ET
Stocks extended their rally on Friday, lifting the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a 3-year high, while bonds and gold rose and the dollar and oil dropped.
[external] Wall St Week Ahead – High hopes for a bull with long legs – at Reuters – Fri 6:00 pm ET
Stock investors next week should get more clues on whether the bull market has long enough legs to drive gains to year end, as many market pros now expect.
Oil stocks close higher, fueled by early crude bounce – CBS MarketWatch – Fri 5:27 pm ET
Energy stocks ended the week on a firm note, fueled by an early rally in the crude oil market and forecasts of below-normal temperatures in the U.S. Northeast this weekend.
Stocks End Higher as Dell Boosts Techs – Reuters – Fri 5:02 pm ET
Stocks extended their rally on Friday, led by technology shares after computer maker Dell Inc. shot up 8 percent on a higher quarterly profit and an optimistic forecast.
Trading pickup boosts brokers – CBS MarketWatch – Fri 4:09 pm ET
The major indexes of U.S. financial stocks were mixed on Friday, with several brokerage stocks rising amid reports of a pickup in trading volumes.
[external] U.S. small-cap stocks still outperform large-caps – at Reuters – Fri 1:18 pm ET
The Davids of the stock market are beating the Goliaths again. U.S. small-capitalization stocks — stocks of companies with a market capitalization between $100 million and $2 billion, calculated as shares outstanding times share price — outperformed larger-cap stocks last quarter.