Stocks Rise on Cooling Oil Prices

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Wall Street advanced solidly Friday to finish the week higher as oil prices cooled and investors embraced signs that the economy could move forward despite Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 82.63, or 0.8 percent, to 10,678.56. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 9.81, or 0.8 percent, to 1,241.48. The Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 9.48, or 0.4 percent, to 2,175.51.


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