Dow closes at 11th straight record as stocks finish week higher
MARKETWATCH 4:13 PM ET 2/24/2017
Symbol Last Price Change
WMT 72.39 +1.08 (+1.51%)
GS 247.35up -3.84 (-1.53%)
QUOTES AS OF 04:00:30 PM ET 02/24/2017
The Dow industrials and S&P 500 finished at records Friday as the Dow continued its streak of closing highs and daily gains despite a selloff of financial and energy shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.44 points, or less than 0.1%, to finish at 20,821.76, its eleventh straight session of record closes, led higher by shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.(WMT) and Johnson & Johnson Inc. (JNJ) and hampered by shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.(GS) and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM). For the week, the Dow closed up 1% for its third week of gains. The S&P 500 index closed up 3.53 points, or 0.2%, at a record 2,367.34, with utilities and telecom stocks leading gains and energy and financial stocks weighing on the index. For the week, the S&P 500 closed up 0.7% for its fifth straight week of gains. The Nasdaq Composite index finished up 9.80 points, or 0.2%, at 5,845.31, just shy of a record, for a 0.1% gain on the week and its fifth straight week of gains.
-Wallace Witkowski; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com
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